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"The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in."

Voltaire on Architecture

More quotes about Architecture

  • "We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."

    Winston Churchill on Architecture

  • "Whatever good things we build end up building us."

    Jim Rohn on Architecture

  • "I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build."

    Ayn Rand on Architecture

  • "A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom."

    Ayn Rand on Architecture

  • "Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age."

    Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture

More quotes by Voltaire

  • "What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy."

  • "He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it."

  • "We are rarely proud when we are alone."

  • "Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game."

  • "Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."

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