Jean-Paul Sartre's concern, in a phrase, was what it was like to be human. The topic sounded unmanageable, but Sartre linked its core elements—the mind, human values and human freedom—in big loose equations
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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci was born on this day in 1452 near Florence. According to Vasari, sculptor Andrea del Verrocchio trained Leonardo in "all matters pertaining to design." He learned many of the skills that would later serve him as painter, sculptor, architect, and engineer.
"Ginevra de' Benci" is an early work by the artist, completed when he was just 21. The portrait is among Leonardo's earliest experiments with the new medium of oil paint. In his depiction of Ginevra's face, we can see a careful observation of nature. Her lifelike and forthright portrayal broke with conventions of earlier Renaissance portraiture of women, which presented female sitters in a more detached profile view. It is with this new naturalism that Leonardo would transform Renaissance painting.
See Ginevra—the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas—in Gallery 6 on the main floor of the West Building.
Leonardo da Vinci, "Ginevra de' Benci" [obverse], c. 1474/1478, oil on panel, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
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Born: February 12, 1809, Hodgenville, Kentucky, United States
Height: 1.93 m
Assassinated: April 15, 1865, Petersen House, Washington, D.C., United States
Presidential term: March 4, 1861 – April 15, 1865
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
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