Если хочешь быть счастливым — будь им!
• No. 80.
• No. 80.
“
If you want to be happy, be!
— Kozma Prutkov
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "If you want to be happy, be!" in the context of "Если хочешь быть счастливым — будь им!
• No. 80." to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Kozma Prutkov" (Quotes, Fruits of Reflection (1853-1854))
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About Kozma Prutkov
Kozma Petrovich Prutkov (Russian: Козьма́ Петро́вич Прутко́в) is a collective pen name used by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy and his cousins, three Zhemchuzhnikov brothers, Alexei, Vladimir and Alexander to publish satires, aphorisms, fables, epigrams, and humorous and nonsense verses during Nicholas I of Russia's authoritarian reign in the 1850s–1860s, most notably in the literary magazine "Sovremennik" (The Contemporary).
About Kozma Prutkov
Kozma Petrovich Prutkov (Russian: Козьма́ Петро́вич Прутко́в) is a collective pen name used by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy and his cousins, three Zhemchuzhnikov brothers, Alexei, Vladimir and Alexander to publish satires, aphorisms, fables, epigrams, and humorous and nonsense verses during Nicholas I of Russia's authoritarian reign in the 1850s–1860s, most notably in the literary magazine "Sovremennik" (The Contemporary).
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