A Quote by Michel de Montaigne

Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul; you must also toughen up his muscles. — © Michel de Montaigne
Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul; you must also toughen up his muscles.
There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up.
The point of the adversity is to toughen your mind so that you can handle difficult circumstances in life. Your mind, toughen just like you toughen your body. So it really depends on what you need. It really depends on the individual.
Growing up in a system that tells you just because of your skin colour you are not good enough - you learn at a very young age to toughen up.
Constantly reemphasize to yourself the great fact that God built potential strength into your nature. By affirming it and practicing it, this basic strength will toughen up as muscles do.
Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong.
To toughen up, is to calm down.
No system of education is complete that does not harden the hands and toughen muscles, while it is also develops the intellect and enlarges the heart...only through work do we attain the true symmetry, strength, and glory of godly manhood and womanhood.
A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros. His problem is how to toughen his hide without hardening his heart.
I think there are things you can do to toughen yourself up.
But don't forget who you really are. And I'm not talking about your so-called real name. All names are made up by someone else, even the one your parents gave you. You know who you really are. When you're alone at night, looking up at the stars, or maybe lying in your bed in total darkness, you know that nameless person inside you...Your muscles will toughen. So will your heart and soul. That's necessary for survival. But don't lose touch with that person deep inside you, or else you won't really have survived at all.
Lestat: Toughen up baby. I'm looking for the eternal scum.
Encourage your kids' artistic side. Toughen up everything else.
The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit.
If my style is too direct for some, maybe they should toughen up a bit.
Once a week, someone tells me to toughen up, get a sharper edge. I don't do that.
If I'm ever wearing a super-flowy dress, I like to toughen it up with a boot or something.
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