She [virtue] requires a rough and stormy passage; she will have either outward difficulties to wrestle with, 11 … or internal difficulties.
Book II, ch. 11. Of Cruelty - Essais (1595) - Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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