She [virtue] requires a rough and stormy passage; she will have either outward difficulties to wrestle with, 11 … or internal difficulties. - Michel de Montaigne

Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose; whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.

Quand je me joue à ma chatte, qui sait si elle passe son temps de moi, plus que je ne fais d'elle.

Je veux que la mort me trouve plantant mes choux.