Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient. Bolesław Prus More Quotes by Bolesław Prus More Quotes From Bolesław Prus For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others. Bolesław Prus sacrifice strange self 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 doe thinking Folly is as great as the sea, it will compass anything. Bolesław Prus compass folly sea 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 mind feelings A life whose beginning we do not remember, and whose end we do not know. Bolesław Prus ends knows remember