Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Boleslaw Prus

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Polish novelist Boleslaw Prus.

Last updated on December 25, 2024.

Aleksander Głowacki, better known by his pen name Bolesław Prus, was a Polish novelist, a leading figure in the history of Polish literature and philosophy, as well as a distinctive voice in world literature.

Polish - Novelist | August 20, 1847 - May 19, 1912

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

Boleslaw Prus

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

Boleslaw Prus

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

Boleslaw Prus

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

Boleslaw 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 Happiness, insofar as it exists on this earth, will come of itself.

Boleslaw Prus

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

Boleslaw Prus

Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Boleslaw Prus

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