Bolesław Prus Quotes

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

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

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

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

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