John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
9287 Mihel Eyquem
| NUMBER: | 9287 |
| AUTHOR: | Michel Eyquem, seigneur de Montaigne (1533–1592) |
| QUOTATION: | She [virtue] requires a rough and stormy passage; she will have either outward difficulties to wrestle with, 1 … or internal difficulties. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Book ii. Chap. xi. Of Cruelty. |
| Note 1. See Milton, Quotation 363. [back] |