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Display no favours to the strong
You must uphold the Law's just ordinance,
display no favours to the strong,
leave not the widows nor the orphans
without defense or help for long.
Gavrila Derzhavin
Excerto do poema To Rulers and Judges
in Chapter I - The Eighteenth Century
The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry - edited by Robert Chandler, Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski