Mina

“The ideal architect should be a man of letters, a skillful draftsman, a mathematician, familiar with historical studies, a diligent student of philosophy, acquainted with music, not ignorant of medicine, learned in the responses of jurisconsults, familiar with astronomy and astronomical calculations.”
― Vitruvius

“In the last 3,421 years of recorded history only 268 have seen no war.”
― Will Durant, The Lessons of History

“I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at once by whatever is off-center, out of whack, unmanageable. And being an only child I had been coddled a good deal (also scolded). I was awkward, precocious, timid, full of my private rituals and aversions.”
― Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness: Stories