 The thickness of the walls should be sufficient for two armed men to pass each other with ease. |
| Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings. |
| Since, therefore, individuals as well as the public are so indebted to these writers for the benefits they enjoy, I think them not only entitled to the honour of palms and crowns, but even to be numbered among the gods. |
| Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language; because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin. |
| In 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. |
| Dimension regulated the general scale of the work, so that the parts may all tell and be effective. |
| For an object under the eye will appear very different from the same object placed above it; in an inclosed space, very different from the same in an open space. |
| But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with a small fortune and reputation, than desirous of abundance accompanied by a want of reputation. |
