Cultural Remembrance
An opera about him Leszek biały was performed in 1809. It had been written by Józef Elsner.
Read more about this topic: Leszek I The White
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“Then I said to myself, What happens to the fool will happen to me also; why then have I been so very wise? And I said to myself that this also is vanity. For there is no enduring remembrance of the wise or of fools, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How can the wise die just like fools?”
—Bible: Hebrew, Ecclesiastes 2:15-16.