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Economy consists in a due and proper application of the means afforded according to the ability of the employer and the situation chosen care being taken that the expenditure is prudently conducted.

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Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole.

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Marble is not alike in all countries.

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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.

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Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.

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The thickness of the walls should be sufficient for two armed men to pass each other with ease.

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Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their virtues and properties.

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From the exterior face of the wall towers must be projected, from which an approaching enemy may be annoyed by weapons, from the embrasures of those towers, right and left.

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Wind is a floating wave of air, whose undulation continually varies.

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Care should be taken that all buildings are well lighted in those of the country this point is easily accomplished, because the wall of a neighbour is not likely to interfere with the light.

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Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

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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.

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The lanes and streets of the city being set out, the choice of sites for the convenience and use of the state remains to be decided on for sacred edifices, for the forum, and for other public buildings.

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Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.

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Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty.

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I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible.

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Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion.

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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.

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An easy approach to the walls must be provided against indeed they should be surrounded by uneven ground, and the roads leading to the gates should be winding and turn to the left from the gates.

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Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.

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Dimension regulated the general scale of the work, so that the parts may all tell and be effective.

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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.

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I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any one.

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In the north, buildings should be arched, enclosed as much as possible, and not exposed, and it seems proper that they should face the warmer aspects.

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Quicksilver is used for many purposes without it, neither silver nor brass can be properly gilt.

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