"Do not allow yourself to be defeated by anything that is foreign to your spirit: and when you find yourself in the midst of life's misfortunes, think that you carry within you a supporting force, something strong and indestructible, like a diamond axis around which all the small facts that make up the fabric of your daily life move: whatever events you pass through - whether they are part of what we call favorable, adverse, or humiliating - you remain determined and head up , so that at least this can be said about you: that you are human.
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Ángel Ganivet GarcíaAll Translations
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Do not allow yourself to be defeated by anything that is foreign to your spirit: and when you find yourself in the midst of life's misfortunes, think that you carry within you a supporting force, something strong and indestructible, like a diamond axis around which all the small facts that make up the fabric of your daily life move: whatever events you pass through - whether they are part of what we call favorable, adverse, or humiliating - you remain determined and head up , so that at least this can be said about you: that you are human.
""Să nu te lași învins de nimic ce este străin spiritului tău: iar când te vei afla în toiul nenorocirilor vieții, să te gândești că porți în tine o forță-mumă care te susține, ceva puternic și indestructibil, ca o axă diamantină în jurul căreia se mișcă toate faptele mărunte ce formează țesătura vieții tale de toate zilele: oricare ar fi întâmplările prin care ai trece - fie că ele ar face parte dintre acelea pe care le numim favorabile, potrivnice, sau umilitoare - tu să rămâi hotărât și cu capul sus, ca măcar asta să se poată spună despre tine: că ești om."