To trust authorities, to build upon the people –
What do we care? Leave them alone!... Report
To no-one; serve and please your own;
For power, livery, bend neither spine nor thought:
And, on a whim, stroll anywhere you want
Astounded by nature’s wonder world.
And before art’s emotional creations
Be drowned in ecstasies of admirations –
Here’s happiness! Here are the rights!
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Александр Пушкин
Зависеть от властей, зависеть от народа...