Bolesław Prus Quotes
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Don’t think about happiness. If it doesn’t come, there’s no disappointment; if it does come, it’s a surprise.
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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.
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A life whose beginning we do not remember, and whose end we do not know.
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For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.
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Folly is as great as the sea, it will compass anything.
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Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient.
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