Vitruvius on Ethics
Browse 3 quotations attributed to Vitruvius, catalogued under Ethics, with dates where available.
This page displays 3 quotations attributed to Vitruvius and filed under "Ethics" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Vitruvius, entry #186502: "The design of a temple depends on symmetry, the principles of which must be most carefully observed by the architect."
Attributed to Vitruvius, entry #103904: "For not all things are practicable on identical principles,"
3 Quotes by Vitruvius on Ethics
"The design of a temple depends on symmetry, the principles of which must be most carefully observed by the architect."
"For not all things are practicable on identical principles,"
"In accordance with the foregoing investigations on mathematical principles, let bronze vessels be made, proportionate to the size of the theatre, and let them be so fashioned that, when touched, they may produce with one another the notes of the fourth, the fifth, and so on up the double octave."