“Ophélie” by Jean-Baptiste Bertrand, 1867
“He who builds on the people, builds on the mud.”
Niccolo Machiavelli, from The Prince
“Primevères” by Jan Bogaerts, 1936
“A star looks down at me, And says: ‘Here I and you Stand, each in our degree. What do you mean to do,— Mean to do?’ I say: ‘For all I know, Wait, and let Time go by, Till my change come,’—‘Just so.’ The star says: ‘So mean I;— So mean I.’”— Thomas Hardy, “Waiting Both,” Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy, ed. John Crowe Ransom (Macmillan 1961)
