Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book III, Chapter III, Sec. 13
Context: For the eye is always in search of beauty, and if we do not gratify its desire for pleasure by a proportionate enlargement in these measures, and thus make compensation for ocular deception, a clumsy and awkward appearance will be presented to the beholder.
“Eyes raised towards Heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.”
La beauté qui parle aux yeux, reprit-elle, n’est que le prestige d’un moment; l’œuil du corps n'est pas toujours celui de l'âme.
Le Beau Laurence, ch. 1 (1870); Carroll Owen (trans.) Handsome Lawrence (Boston: James R. Osgood, 1871) p. 30
“Search in your past for what is good and beautiful. Build your future from there.”
From his last letter. As reported in: They Made this Land Donker, 1981, p. 164
“Just as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, leadership is in the eyes of the led.”
Leadership Is in the Eyes of the Led, Says Thiry http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/headlines/vftt_thiry.html (2007)
“I always search for some light and always at night and never illuminated by any light.”
Siempre busco alguna luz y siempre en la noche y no alumbrado por ninguna luz.
Voces (1943)
