Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach:
Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.
~Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.
~Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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In youth we learn; in age we understand.
~Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.
~Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.
~Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.
~Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.
~Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.
~Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones.
~Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Nobody knows enough, but many know too much.
~Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Conquer, but don't triumph.
~Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Imaginary evils are incurable.
~Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.
~Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
~Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.
~Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.
~Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
~Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.
~Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.
~Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.
~Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.
~Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.
~Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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