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Gyorgy Kepes, A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance, 1952, gouache and pencil on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Container Corporation of America, 1984.124.156
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A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong...For neither in war nor yet at law ought I or any man to use every means of escaping death ...The difficulty, my friends, is not to avoid death, but to avoid unrighteousness...Wherefore, O judges, be of good cheer about death, and know of a certainty that no evil can happen to a good man in life or after death. --Socrates on doing right or wrong. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
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- 1952
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sheet: 16 x 11 7/8 in. (40.7 x 30.1 cm)
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gift of Container Corporation of America
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- gouache and pencil on paperboard
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1984.124.156
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