21 August

Born in 1725 – Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter and educator.

Above: Detail of Greuze’s The Guitarist (1757)

Also, born in 1567, Swiss bishop and saint Francis de Sales.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so you learn to love God and man by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.