Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 127.
“Now, of all acts the most complete is that of constructing. A work demands love, meditation, obedience to your finest thought, the invention of laws by your soul, and many other things that it draws miraculously from your own self, which did not suspect that it possessed them. This work proceeds from the most intimate center of your existence, and yet it is distinct from yourself.”
Socrates, p. 145
Eupalinos ou l'architecte (1921)
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