Евгений Бажан

- Делай что хочешь и пусть люди говорят что угодно. Злословец есть самый лютый из диких зверей; льстец — самый опасный из ручных животных. Сто друзей - мало, один враг - много. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Il vincitore appartiene al suo bottino. Love. Inspire. Forgive. Empower. Fatti non foste per viver come bruti, ma per seguir virtute e conoscenza My private tragedy, which cannot, and indeed should not, be anybody's concern, is that I had to abandon my natural idiom, my untrammeled, rich, and infinitely docile Russian tongue for a second-rate brand of English, devoid of any of those apparatuses, the baffling mirror, the black velvet backdrop, the implied associations and traditions, which the native illusionist can magically use to transcend the heritage in his own way (Nabokov V. V.)