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Bolesław Prus Quotes

For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.

For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.

Sacrifice, Self, Strange

"The Doll". Book by Bolesław Prus, 1890.

Don’t think about happiness. If it doesn’t come, there’s no disappointment; if it does come, it’s a surprise.

Disappointment, Thinking, Doe

A life whose beginning we do not remember, and whose end we do not know.

Remember, Ends, Knows

"The Doll". Book by Bolesław Prus, 1890.

Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient.

Emotion, Pity

"The Doll". Book by Bolesław Prus, 1889.

Folly is as great as the sea, it will compass anything.

Sea, Compass, Folly

"Pharaoh". Book by Bolesław Prus, 1897.

Perfect the Will, the Mind, Feeling, their corporeal organs and their material tools; be useful to yourselves, to your own ones, and to others; and Happiness, insofar as it exists on this earth, will come of itself.

Perfect, Feelings, Mind

"The Most General Life Ideals". Book by Boleslaw Prus, 2nd edition, 1905.

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