VLADIMIR II MONOMAKH

I did not allow the mighty to distress the common peasant or the poverty-stricken widow.

Whenever you travel over your lands, permit not the servants, neither your own, nor a stranger's, to do any damage in the villages, or in the fields, that they may not curse you. Wheresoever you go, and wherever you stay, give the destitute to eat and to drink. Above all honor the stranger, whencesoever he may come, whether he be a commoner, a nobleman or an ambassador

Whenever you travel over your lands, permit not the servants, neither your own, nor a stranger's, to do any damage in the villages, or in the fields, that they may not curse you. Wheresoever you go, and wherever you stay, give the destitute to eat and to drink. Above all honor the stranger, whencesoever he may come, whether he be a commoner, a nobleman or an ambassador

I did not allow the mighty to distress the common peasant or the poverty-stricken widow.