# The most famous lines from Pan Tadeusz

From the Invocation 'Lithuania! My homeland!' to Jankiel's concert and the last polonaise: lines from Adam Mickiewicz's epic everyone knows, with book and line number.

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- Jan 27, 2024 · tripnerd.lazy
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## Top 14

1. **Lithuania! My homeland! You are like health; only he who has lost you knows how much you must be prized.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Book I, Invocation, lines 1–3: the poem's opening.
2. **Holy Virgin, who guards bright Częstochowa and shines in the Gate of Dawn!** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Book I, Invocation, lines 5–6.
3. **For Paris prides itself on changing fashions, and whatever the French invent, the Poles will love.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Book I, lines 479–480.
4. **Courtesy is neither an easy nor a small science.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Book I, line 361.
5. **For the heart is no servant, knows no masters, and cannot be put in chains by force.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Book III, lines 490–491.
6. **There's no agreement, my good sir.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Book II, line 256.
7. **To silence Poland is to Germanise Poland.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Book V, line 436.
8. **Never two of you shoot at the same game.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Book V, line 485.
9. **I am Jacek Soplica…** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Book X, line 460: Father Robak's confession.
10. **Where have I not been, what have I not suffered!** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Book X, line 820.
11. **O spring! Whoever saw you then in our land, memorable spring of war, spring of plenty!** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Book XI, lines 117–118: the spring of 1812.
12. **There were many dulcimer players, but none dared to play next to Jankiel.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Book XII, lines 641–642: Jankiel's concert.
13. **Ah, perhaps he's the last! Look, look, young ones, perhaps the last to lead the polonaise like this!** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Book XII, lines 798–799: the Chamberlain leads the polonaise.
14. **The land of childhood! It will always remain holy and pure, like first love.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Epilogue, lines 67–68.

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