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Blest is that man who least depends on other men
Blest is that man who least depends on other men,
whose life is free from debt and from capricious striving,
who goeth not to court for praise, or gold to lend;
and shuns all vanities conniving!
Gavrila Derzhavin
Excerto do poema from To Eugene: Life at Zvanka
in Chapter I - The Eighteenth Century
The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry - edited by Robert Chandler, Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski