The desire to write grows with writing.; - Erasmus

The Stoics define wisdom to be conducted by reason, and folly nothing else but the being hurried by passion, lest our life should otherwise have been too dull and inactive, that creator, who out of clay first tempered and made us up, put into the composition of our humanity more than a pound of passions to an ounce of reason; and reason he confined within the narrow cells of the brain, whereas he left passions the whole body to
range in.

Farther, he set up two sturdy champions to stand
perpetually on guard, that reason might make no assault,
surprise, nor inroad ; anger, which keeps its station in
the fortress of the heart ; and lust, which like the signs
Virgo and Scorpio, rules the appetites and passions.

Pico della Mirandola escribe hacia esta época su Discurso sobre la dignidad humana, en el que otorga al ser humano tanto la capacidad como la obligación de ser lo suficientemente noble para responder a la alta misión de llegar a comprender la unidad del cosmos en su divinidad.

Nada hay más necio, sin duda, que hablar en serio de lo que es pura necedad, ni nada más divertido que hablar en broma de aquello que no se sospecharía que lo fuera.