[Ancien élève de l'École normale supérieure, Bernard Sève a été longtemps professeur en khâgne à Lyon et à Paris. Il est aujourd'hui...

"It is a mistake to regard his scepticism as merely negative. Like all wise scepticism it is creative and constructive."

"’Tis a presumption of great danger and consequence, besides the absurd temerity it draws after it, to contemn what we do not comprehend."

"The wise skeptic wishes to have a near view of the best game and the chief players; what is best in the planet; art and nature..."

"The greatest thing in the world is for a man to know that he is his own."

"A Comparison of the Subject Matter and Thought of Montaigne's and Bacon's Essays "

"Comme Montaigne, Shakespeare, ou du moins Hamlet, reconnaît en lui-même avec inquiétude le tourment propre aux mélancoliques"