What do I know?
renaissance · essay
Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne · 1533–1592 · French
Inventor of the essay as a room of one's own. What do I know? — and the rest of philosophy as a footnote to that shrug.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened.
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.