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If our designs for private houses are to be correct, we must at the outset take note of the countries and climates in which they are built.
— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
For we must not build temples according to the same rules to all gods alike, since the performance of the sacred rites varies with the various gods.
— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
It is no secret that the moon has no light of her own, but is, as it were, a mirror, receiving brightness from the influence of the sun.
— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
My mom knew early on that I was gay, and she knew that I had to get out of the ghetto.
— Lee Daniels
Architecture depends on Order, Arrangement, Eurythmy, Symmetry , Propriety , and Economy.
— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
In fact, all kinds of men, and not merely architects, can recognize a good piece of work ...
— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
There are also kinds of water that cause death, as they run through harmful juices in the soil and become poisonous.
— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
I struggled to get through high school. I didn't get to go to college. But it made me realize you can do anything if you want to bad enough.
— S. Truett Cathy
A harmonious design requires that nothing be added or taken away.
— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
There are ... many ... names for winds derived from localities or from the squalls which sweep from rivers or down mountains.
— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
The proper form of economy must be observed in building houses for each and every class.
— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Nothing suffers annihilation, but at dissolution there is a change, and things fall back to the essential element in which they were before.
— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Cold winds are disagreeable, hot winds enervating, moist winds unhealthy.
— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
When the juices of trees have no means of escape, they clot and rot in them, making the trees hollow and good for nothing.
— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
All machinery is derived from nature, and is founded on the teaching and instruction of the revolution of the firmament.
— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Bricks should be made in Spring or Autumn so that they may dry uniformly.
— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
The architect must not only understand drawing, but music.
— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
There will be no propriety in the spectacle of an elegant interior approached by a low mean entrance.
— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
For not all things are practicable on identical principles
— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
The design of a temple depends on symmetry , the principles of which must be most carefully observed by the architect.
— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises.
— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
From food and water, then, we may learn whether sites are naturally unhealthy or healthy.
— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
The oak ... has not the efficacy of the fir , nor the cypress that of the elm .
— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Next I must tell about the machine of Ctesibius, which raises water to a height.
— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
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[Beauty is] that which makes us despair.
— Paul Valery