Fortuna często rozumowi przeczy
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What it means
Luck often goes against reason. It does not follow logic, and life does not always turn out as common sense would suggest.
Vocabulary
- fortuna — fortune, luck, fate or good chance
- rozum — reason, mind, common sense
- przeczyć — to contradict, to deny
Grammar note
'Rozumowi' is the dative of 'rozum'. 'Przeczyć' governs the dative: 'przeczyć czemuś' (to contradict something).
Cultural context
This reflects an old folk view that fate is hard to predict and cannot be fully controlled by reason.
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