Bolesław Prus Quotes

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

Bolesław Prus

• Happiness
• Surprise
• Disappointment

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.

Bolesław Prus

• Perfect
• Happiness
• Tools

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

Bolesław Prus

• Human Nature
• Insist
• Self-Sacrifice

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

Bolesław Prus

• Sea
• Compass
• Folly

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

Bolesław Prus

• Life
• Remember
• Beginning

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

Bolesław Prus

• Emotion
• Recipient