Stanisław Jerzy Lec, nascido Stanisław Jerzy de Tusch-Letz foi um importante poeta polonês, um dos maiores da Polônia pós-guerra, e um notável aforista, conhecido por sua poesia lírica e satírica, e por seus aforismos céticos, frequentemente com um subtexto político.Nascido de uma rica família judia vieno-galiciana, Lec fez seus estudos em Lemberg e depois em Viena, onde se graduou em direito . Oito anos depois, foi internado num campo de concentração, de onde conseguiu fugir, vestido com um uniforme alemão. Na Polônia, em 1957, publicou os aforismos que o tornaram célebre. Wikipedia
“Saia do caminho da justiça! Ela é cega.”
Get out of the way of Justice, for she is blind.
More unkempt thoughts - página 23, Stanisław Jerzy Lec, David Pascal - Funk & Wagnalls, 1969 - 60 páginas
“Todos somos iguais perante a lei, mas não perante os encarregados de fazê-las cumprir.”
S. Jerzy Lec como citado in: Pensamentos Bem Humorados - Página 82 https://books.google.com.br/books?id=2pBQBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA82, José Pedrosa - Clube de Autores, 2009
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“A primeira condição para a imortalidade é a morte.”
Перша умова безсмертя — смерть
Sämtliche unfrisierte Gedanken: Dazu Prosa und Gedichte, de Stanisław Jerzy Lec
“É um progresso quando um canibal começa a comer com garfo e faca?”
Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?
Unkempt thoughts - página 78, Stanisław Jerzy Lec - St. Martin's Press, 1962 - 160 páginas
“Quando saltar de alegria, cuide para nada te tirar a terra debaixo dos pés.”
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet
Unkempt thoughts - página 150, Stanisław Jerzy Lec - St. Martin's Press, 1962 - 160 páginas
“Você tem que ter muita paciência para aprender a ter paciência.”
Trzeba mieć dużo cierpliwości, by się jej nauczyć.
Myśli nieuczesane - página 47, Stanisław Jerzy Lec - Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1974 - 216 páginas
“A janela para o mundo pode ser coberta por um jornal.”
The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.
Unkempt thoughts - Página 27, Stanisław Jerzy Lec - St. Martin's Press, 1962 - 160 páginas
“Hay smells different to lovers and horses.”
p, 125
Unkempt Thoughts (1957)
“Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?”
Czy jeżeli ludożerca je widelcem i nożem to postęp?
This inspired the title for Cannibals with Forks : The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business (1998) by John Elkington
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“Those who are ahead of their time often have to wait for it in uncomfortable quarters.”
As quoted in Power for the World (2010) by Wolfgang Palz, Foreword, p. xxi
“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”
Żaden płatek śniegu nie czuje się odpowiedzialny za lawinę.
More Unkempt Thoughts (1964)
“There were grammatical errors even in his silence.”
Nawet w jego milczeniu były błędy językowe.
Variant translation: Even in his silence were grammatical errors.
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“Optimists and pessimists differ only on the date of the end of the world.”
p, 125
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“In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.”
Unkempt Thoughts (1957), p. 21, http://books.google.com/books?id=NTtiAAAAMAAJ&q;=%22In+a+war+of+ideas+it+is+people+who+get+killed%22&pg;=PA21#v=onepage
“When smashing monuments, save the pedestals. They always come in handy.”
Burząc pomniki, oszczędzajcie cokoły. Zawsze mogą się przydać.
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“Do not ask God the way to heaven; he will show you the hardest one.”
Unkempt Thoughts (1957), p. 27
“When everything has to be right, something isn't.”
Unkempt Thoughts (1957), p. 157
“When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.”
Gdy z radości podskoczysz do góry, uważaj, by ci ktoś ziemi spod nóg nie usunął. <sup> http://books.google.com/books?id=IjpiAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA98&q=%22Gdy+z+rado%C5%9Bci+podskoczysz+do+g%C3%B3ry+uwa%C5%BCaj+by+ci+kto%C5%9B+ziemi+spod+n%C3%B3g+nie+usun%C4%85%C5%82%22&pg=PA134#v=onepage</sup> http://books.google.com/books?id=NTtiAAAAMAAJ&q;=%22When+you+jump+for+joy+beware+that+no+one+moves+the+ground+from+beneath+your+feet%22&pg;=PA150#v=onepage]</sup
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“All is in the hands of Man. Therefore you should wash them often.”
Wszystko jest w rękach człowieka. Dlatego należy je często myć.
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“Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.”
p, 125
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“Open Sesame — I want to get out.”
http://books.google.com/books?id=NTtiAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Open+Sesame%22+%22want+to+get+out%22&pg=PA160#v=onepage p. 160
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“The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius.”
Unkempt Thoughts (1957), p. 116
“All of our separate fictions add up to joint reality.”
Unkempt Thoughts (1957), p. 93; also p. 21
"He who had dug his own grave", from To Abel and Cain, commemorating his escape from the Nazis by his 1943 killing of an SS guard who had been assigned to watch as he dug his own grave, as quoted in "10 Amazing Ways People Survived The Holocaust" by Alan Boyle at Listverse (9 November 2014) http://listverse.com/2014/11/09/10-amazing-ways-people-survived-the-holocaust/
“The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones.”
Tłum krzyczy jednymi wielkimi ustami, ale je tysiącem małych.
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“The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.”
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“You will always find some Eskimos ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heat waves.”
p, 125
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“Morality is either a social contract or you have to pay cash.”
p, 125
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“Do not expect too much of the end of the world.”
As quoted in Foucault's Pendulum (1989) by Umberto Eco, Ch. 7, p. 49; cited to a 1977 Polish edition of Unkempt Thoughts.
“"I will just wag my finger at him", he said, putting it on the trigger.”
Pogrożę mu tylko palcem – rzekł, kładąc go na cynglu.
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