There will be no propriety in the spectacle of an elegant interior approached by a low mean entrance.
Marcus Vitruvius PollioAn architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises.
Marcus Vitruvius PollioIt was a wise and useful provision of the ancients to transmit their thoughts to posterity by recording them in treatises, so that they should not be lost, but, being developed in succeeding generations through publications in books, should gradually attain in later times, to the highest refinement of learning.
Marcus Vitruvius PollioDinocrates did not leave the king, but followed him into Egypt. There Alexander, observing a harbor rendered safe by nature, an excellent center for trade, cornfields throughout all Egypt, and the great usefulness of the mighty river Nile, ordered him to build the city of Alexandria, named after the king. This was how Dinocrates, recommended only by his good looks and dignified carriage, came to be so famous.
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