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Marcus Vitruvius Pollio has 22 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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There are also kinds of water that cause death, as they run through harmful juices in the soil and become poisonous.
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Wind is a floating wave of air, whose undulation continually varies.
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When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge…
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Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being…
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Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.
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Architect's designs must refer to the unquestionable perfection of the body's symmetry and proportions. If a building is to create a sense…
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A harmonious design requires that nothing be added or taken away.
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Architects should be educated, skillful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much history, have followed the philosophers with attention, understand music,…
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A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the…
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The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. As the…
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An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.
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In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one…
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In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be…
— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
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I never dreamed I'd like any city as well as London. San Francisco is exciting, moody, exhilarating. I even love the muted…
— Julie Christie
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I like these people swarming on the sidewalks, wedged into a little space of houses and canals, hemmed in by fogs, cold…
— Albert Camus
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It was November--the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines. Anne roamed…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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