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  What it means

  “The sun shines equally on dung and on a rose.” Nature — and by extension, God or fate — treats everyone and everything the same, regardless of worth or status. A reminder of universal equality.

  English equivalent

  The sun shines on the just and the unjust alike.

  Vocabulary

  • gnój — dung, manure
  • róża — rose
  • słońce — sun
  • jednako — equally, the same (archaic)
  • świecić — to shine

  Grammar note

  'Na gnój i różę' uses the accusative after 'na' (direction/target). 'Jednako' is an archaic adverb equivalent to modern 'jednakowo'.

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