There are many names for winds derived from localities or from the squalls which sweep from rivers or down mountains.
Marcus Vitruvius PollioThe fact is that pictures which are unlike reality ought not be approved, and even if they are technically fine, this is no reason why they should offhand be judged to be correct, if their subject is lacking in the principles of reality carried out with no violations.
Marcus Vitruvius PollioNothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.
Marcus Vitruvius PollioIn setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be on high ground, neither subject to fogs nor rains; its aspects should be neither violently hot nor intensely cold, but temperate in both respects.
Marcus Vitruvius PollioIn fact, all kinds of men, and not merely architects, can recognize a good piece of work.
Marcus Vitruvius PollioApollo at Delphi, through the oracular utterance of his priestess, pronounced Socrates the wisest of men. Of him it is related that he said with sagacity and great learning that the human breast should have been furnished with open windows, so that men might not keep their feelings concealed, but have them open to the view. Oh that nature, following his idea, had constructed them thus unfolded and obvious to the view.
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