Many years ago lived a man. He was a famous painter. His pictures were masterpieces, and all people admired them.

When he painted angels, it seemed, that the magic light shone in their eyes, but when he painted the Devil, he was ugly, terrible, dreadful, and he frightened all people.

Oh, the painter liked to give him all worst features, all worst speciallities.

But one day the Devil was tired of him, and came to the painter. He said: “I’m not so ugly, so dreadful, how you think”.

“But you are evil, your place is in Hell” – cried the painter.

“Yes, I’m evil, but without me you will never know what good is. People think, I can’t forbid, I can’t love, they are afraid of me. But I don’t make people to do evil. I give them a chance, and I had given it to you, but you thought, I’m only an invention.

And now, I must say, you are mistaken”.

And with these words the Devil took the painter with him