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

- Bolesław Prus

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

- Bolesław Prus

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

- Bolesław Prus

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 H…

- Bolesław Prus

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

- Bolesław Prus

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

- Bolesław Prus