“Greši, kdor misli, da živi srečno v mestu. Naj pride sem, ta kraj mu bo ponudil prave užitke.”
“S svojo dominantno lego, svojo arhitekturo in vrtovi so se dubrovniške vile (ljetnikovci) povzdignile nad izključno gospodarsko namembnost. Nesporno so bile mnoge vile središče agrarne dejavnosti, vendar so se začetnim namenom in materialnim pogojem ob vse intenzivnejši gradnji pridružile tudi literarne, filozofske in estetske usmeritve. Vile so se razvile ob svetovnem nazoru, za katerega ukvarjanje s posestvom ni sramotno, še več – obdelovanje zemlje in osebno delo na zemlji sta višji moralni smisel človekovega bivanja.”
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“Mistaken is he who thinks that life in the city is a happy one. Let him come here, this place will provide him with true pleasures.”
“With their dominant position, architecture and gardens, the summer residences placed themselves above the mere farming function. Undoubtedly, many of them were also centres of agriculture, but along with all their starting purposefulness and necessary material base, literary, philosophical and aesthetic impulses participated in their ever intensive construction. They emerged on the philosophy that farming is nothing shameful. Indeed, cultivating the land and even personal farming has an exalted moral sense.”
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