• I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice; for it is myself that I portray... I am myself the matter of my book.

    Michel de Montaigne: I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice; for it is myself that I portray... I am myself the matter of my book.
    Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.2, Stanford University Press