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For not all things are practicable on identical principles,

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Cold winds are disagreeable, hot winds enervating, moist winds unhealthy.

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Bricks should be made in Spring or Autumn so that they may dry uniformly.

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The oak... has not the efficacy of the fir, nor the cypress that of the elm.

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Next I must tell about the machine of Ctesibius, which raises water to a height.

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Now these should be so carried out that account is taken of strength, utility, grace.

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The gravity of a substance depends not on the amount of its weight, but on its nature.

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Architecture depends on Order, Arrangement, Eurythmy, Symmetry, Propriety, and Economy.

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The proper form of economy must be observed in building houses for each and every class.

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From food and water, then, we may learn whether sites are naturally unhealthy or healthy.

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In fact, all kinds of men, and not merely architects, can recognize a good piece of work...

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They make a fine purple colour by treating bilberry in the same way and mixing it with milk.

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An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises.

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There will be no propriety in the spectacle of an elegant interior approached by a low mean entrance.

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The system of fortification by wall and towers may be made safest by the addition of earthen ramparts.

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For neither talent without instruction nor instruction without talent can produce the perfect craftsman.

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Ceres also should be outside the city in a place to which people need never go except for the purpose of sacrifice.

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The design of a temple depends on symmetry, the principles of which must be most carefully observed by the architect.

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All machinery is derived from nature, and is founded on the teaching and instruction of the revolution of the firmament.

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When the juices of trees have no means of escape, they clot and rot in them, making the trees hollow and good for nothing.

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There are... many... names for winds derived from localities or from the squalls which sweep from rivers or down mountains.

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Copious springs are found where there are mines of gold, silver, iron, copper, lead, and the like, but they are very harmful.

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There are three departments of architecture: the art of building, the making of time-pieces, and the construction of machinery.

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Every hot spring has healing properties because it has been boiled with foreign substances, and thus acquires a new useful quality.

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Even peasants wholly without knowledge of the quarters of the sky believe that oxen ought to face only in the direction of the sunrise.

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These rules for symmetry were established by Hermogenes, who was also the first to devise the principal of the pseudodipteral octastyle.

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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.

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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.

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Nothing suffers annihilation, but at dissolution there is a change, and things fall back to the essential element in which they were before.

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To guard against this, we must proceed as follows. Let down a lighted lamp, and if it keeps burning, a man may make the descent without danger.

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