Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov. (№ 75655)

Karl V, the Roman Emperor, used to say that Spanish with God, French with friends, German with an enemy, Italian - with women to speak properly. But if he Russian language was skillful, of course, added to the fact that they all add say decent, because would have found in it the magnificence of Spanish, the vivacity of French, the fortress of German, tenderness of Italian, besides the wealth and strong in the images, the brevity of the Greek and Latin languages.