For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others. BOLESłAW PRUS SacrificeSelfStrange
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 FeelingsHappinessMindPerfect
Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient. BOLESłAW PRUS EmotionPityUnpleasant
A life whose beginning we do not remember, and whose end we do not know. BOLESłAW PRUS EndsKnowsRemember