"Que sais-je?

“Don’t discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose. If you belittle yourself, you are believed. If you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.”

– Michel de Montaigne [1533-1592]

popularized the essay

"... on the loftiest throne in the world we are still sitting on our own behind."
- Michel de Montaigne [1533-1592]

understood

“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance

"It's nice to have something which is unfinished because it implies that there is still room for growth."
- Japanese essays on idleness