"When you erect a wall or portico of great elegance and adorn it with a door, columns, or roof, good citizens approve and express joy for their own sake, as well as for yours, because they realize that you have used your wealth to increase greatly not only your own honor and glory, but also that of your family, your descendants, and the whole city."
-Leon Battista Alberti On the Art of Building in Ten Books translated by Joseph Rykwert, Neil Leach, Robert Tavernor
Domus Dei
"When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight not for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them and that men will say as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, 'See, This our Fathers did for us!'"
-John Ruskin
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Domus Hominis
"How many respected families both in our own city and in others throughout the world would have totally disappeared, brought down by some temporary adversity, had not their family hearth harbored them, welcoming them, as it were, into the very bosom of their ancestors?"
- Leon Battista Alberti On the Art of Building in Ten Books translated by Joseph Rykwert, Neil Leach, Robert Tavernor
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