Vitruvius book De architectura
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book V, Chapter I, Sec. 4
“There are some who esteem that it is a naivety to believe that a moral regeneration may be possible ("soit possible", Fr.); now, if this was not the case, it would not be worth the trouble that humanity continue to vegetate without aim.”
Source: Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir (1937), p. 61.
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