The Book of Degrees of the Royal Genealogy (Stepennaya kniga), written around 1563. A passage on the reign of Vasily III.
wherefore ever, his royal heart and mind keeping watch and pondering wisely, steering all with care in lawfulness, and with might driving off the torrents of lawlessness, let not the ship of his great dominion founder in the waves of falsehood
At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the
Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least
