The Death of Marcus Aurelius

The Death of Marcus Aurelius

Friday, June 18, 2021

Tidbits from Montaigne 28


Virtue refuses facility for a companion . . . the easy, smooth, and descending way by which the regular steps of a sweet disposition of nature are conducted is not that of a true virtue; she requires a rough and stormy passage.

—Michel de Montaigne, Essays 2.11

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