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For neither talent without instruction nor instruction without talent can produce the perfect craftsman.

— Vitruvius De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (-15)

Neque enim ingenium sine disciplina aut disciplina sine ingenio perfectum artificem potest efficere.

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Chapter I, Sec. 3; translation by Frank Granger | Morris Hicky Morgan translation

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