And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?

I do not teach. I relate.

Every man carries the entire form of human condition.

It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man.

Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens.

Authors communicate with the people by some special extrinsic mark; I am the first to do so by my entire being, as Michel de Montaigne.

I am myself the matter of my book.