A Quote by Michel de Montaigne

Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.

Michel de Montaigne

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Michel de Montaigne
French - Philosopher
February 28, 1533 - September 13, 1592

Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.

Michel de Montaigne

The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.

Michel de Montaigne

Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads And recks not his own read.

William Shakespeare

Only your hearts be frolic, for the time Craves that we taste of naught but jouissance.

Robert Greene

To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.

Alcaeus

Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Over unsounded gorges, through the rifled hearts of mountains, under torrents' beds, unerringly I rush! Naught's an obstacle, naught's an angle to the iron way!

Herman Melville

He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

Michel de Montaigne

Your soul craves truth, beauty, wonder, love. Your soul craves to dream, to imagine, and even simply to understand. Your soul craves to connect, to commune, to create.

Erwin McManus

Luckily, however, life doesn't always follow tradition, but craves out a path of its own.

Kader Abdolah

As you climb the mountains of life, stay on the path of virtue. There will be others to help you- your parents, family members, bishops, advisers, and righteous friends of all ages. And if you are weary or take a wrong turn, change your direction and get back on the path of virtue. Always remember that the Savior is there for you. He will enable you to repent, strengthen you, lighten your burdens, dry your tears, comfort you, and continue to help you stay on the path.

Elaine S. Dalton

That thorny path, those stormy skies, have drawn our spirits nearer; and rendered us, by sorrow's ties, each to the other dearer.

Bernard Barton

Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.

Horace

The thorny path bears some of the sweetest flowers that adorn life. And when with naked, bleeding feet we walk upon a flinty soil, we often find diamonds.