Bolesław Prus Quotes

• 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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  Sacrifice, Self, Strange

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

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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.

  Bolesław Prus

  Disappointment, Thinking, Doe

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

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  Remember, Ends, Knows

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

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

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  Sea, Compass, Folly

  "Pharaoh". Book by Bolesław Prus, 1897.

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

  Bolesław Prus

  Emotion, Pity

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

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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.

  Bolesław Prus

  Perfect, Feelings, Mind

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

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