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And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than that of the sheep with which he is clothed.

Michelangelo
Beauty, Men, Sheep
Francisco de Hollanda, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1928). “Four dialogues on painting”, Hyperion Pr
And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than that of the sheep with which he is clothed.