Consequently, since this study is vast in extent, embellished and enriched as it is with many different kinds of learning, I think that men have no right to ...

Consequently, since this study is vast in extent, embellished and enriched as it is with many different kinds of learning, I think that men have no right to profess themselves architects hastily, without having climbed from boyhood the steps of these studies and thus, nursed by the knowledge of many arts and sciences, having reached the heights of the holy ground of architecture.

Vitruvius in De architectura
Submitted by Veronica Serbanoiu
Vote! | Copy!