THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Let us not forget that violence does not and cannot exist by itself; it is invariably intertwined with the lie. They are linked in the most intimate, most organic and profound fashion: violence cannot conceal itself behind anything except lies, and lies have nothing to maintain them save violence. Anyone who has once proclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose the lie as his principle.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

BIRTHDAYS:

1599 Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter.

1606 Pierre Corneille, French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great 17th-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine.

1625 Domenico Guidi, Italian sculptor.

1661 Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer, and Maestro di Cappella (San Petronio, 1696-1756), born in Bologna, Papal States. Perti Dixit Dominus, and Oratorio della passione (1:10:06)

1756 John Trumbull, American painter.

1799 Alexander Pushkin, Russian writer and poet (Eugene Onegin), born in Moscow, Russian Empire.

1844 Konstantin Savitsky, Russian painter.

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