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"By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities."
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"The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics."
"The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls but in the space within to be lived in."
"We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."
"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."
"Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see."
"Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise."
"Nothing - really, absolutely nothing - says more about Victorian Britain and its capacity for brilliance than that the century's most daring and iconic building was entrusted to a gardener."
"Solomon's temple also was designed to increase the attractiveness of the city of his residence."
"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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"There is one way, then, in which a man can be free from all anxiety about the fate of his soul - if in life he has abandoned bodily pleasures and adornments, as foreign to his purpose and likely to do more harm than good, and has devoted himself to the pleasures of acquiring knowledge, and so by decking his soul not with a borrowed beauty but with its own - with self-control, and goodness, and courage, and liberality, and truth - has fitted himself to await his journey in the next world."
"By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."
"No man undertakes a trade he has not learned even the meanest yet every one thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades - that of government."
"My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves."
"Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively."
"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher."
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