Petrarch, Familiar Letters 8.3
Philosophos quidem et poetas duros ac saxeos uulgus existimat, sed in hoc fallitur ut in multis; carnei enim sunt, humanitatem retinent, abiciunt uoluptates...
People think that philosophers and poets are hard and made of stone, but they are wrong in that as in many other things; for they are made of flesh, they retain their humanity, they are subjected to desires...
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