Īs a 15-year-old, Aleksander Głowacki joined the Polish 1863 Uprising against Imperial Russia. Aleksander Głowacki (20 August 1847 – ), better known by his pen name Bolesław Prus ( Polish: ( listen)), was a Polish novelist, a leading figure in the history of Polish literature and philosophy, as well as a distinctive voice in world literature. Let us add suspiciousness - the fruit of bitter experiences a pessimism inseparable from all manner of disappointments and finally, a general decline of powers from exhaustion. An old person is a used-up machine has too many dogmas to easily believe in a new truth too many sympathies and antipathies for him to come to love something unfamiliar too many habits to be able to settle on new ways. Nature has done well and wisely, in not permitting a man to live forever and in bringing into the world ever new generations.Your true Pole starts to sweat at the second decimal place, at the fifth he runs a temperature, and at the seventh has a stroke.What shall I do, though, if the sensible man wins?’

But I am not concerned with that any longer.

‘There are two men in me,’ he thought, ‘one quite sensible, the other a lunatic.

There are neither graves nor death in Nature there are various forms of existence, some of which enable us to be chemists, others only chemical substances.

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

Money really is a great power, only one must know how to use it.

And you who've got no money, you've no rights to any woman at all. He's a merchant, so he's got no right to a countess. I'm a Jew, so I musn't love a Christian woman.

And so among the animals there are no idiots.

In all of nature, a male belongs to a female that he fancies and who fancies him.

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

Instead of an axe or scythe or scimitar, they fight with roubles.

And is there no war on today? It is the weapons that have changed, that's all.

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

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

Quotes Bolesław Prus (Aleksander Głowacki) Bolesław Prus was the pen-name of Aleksander Głowacki ( Aug– May 19, 1912), a Polish journalist and novelist known as the leading representative of realism in 19th-century Polish literature.

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