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  What it means

  Fortune often contradicts reason — luck does not follow logic. Things don’t always go the way common sense would predict.

  Vocabulary

  • fortuna — fortune, luck, fate
  • rozum — reason, mind, 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

  Reflects a fatalistic strand in Polish folk philosophy — that fate is unpredictable and beyond rational control.

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