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The friar writes back: “Leonardo’s life is extremely irregular and haphazard, and he seems to live from day to day.… He devotes much of his time to geometry, and has no fondness at all for the paintbrush.”

Just as Jesus brought his message “to those struggling to live from day to day”, he said, people today should care for those most in need on the fringes of society.

Tanzania is a poor country and people live from day to day and earn the little money they will need to buy food.

The lockdown is catastrophic for the poor in India who live from day to day.

“Those who live from day to day immersed in pleasures see their reasons for living completed every day,” he wrote, “whereas those who think of posterity and prolong the period for which they will be remembered through their work, for them death is always sudden since it interrupts something before it’s finished.”