Quotes with thorny

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• But, good my brother, do not, as some ungracious pastors do. Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven whilst like a puffed and reckless libertine himself the primrose path of dalliance treads and wrecks not his own.

  ― William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends... with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!

  ― Marquis de Sade
  French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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• Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

  ― Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
  French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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• Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

  ― Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
  French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• ungracious
• incestuous
• adulteress
• maidenhead
• companion
• rapidity

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