Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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
Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.

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Whoso appears before the public should expect no consideration and demand none.

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What you wish to do you are apt to think you ought to do.

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It is difficult to see the person who admires us as stupid.

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Those who believe in the freedom of the will have never loved, and never hated.

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Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.

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The greatest leveler is politeness; it removes all class distinctions.

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We are valued either too highly or not highly enough. We are never taken at our real worth.

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Whoever shows both charm and pleasure in explaining to people things that they already know soon gets a reputation as an intelligent individual.

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Do not fear the ones who argue, but rather those who are evasive.

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People who read only the classics are sure to remain up-to-date.

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When two good men contend about principles, both are always right.

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Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.

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Many think that when they have confessed a fault there is no need of correcting it.

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There are a host of bad habits and inconsiderate acts which mean nothing in themselves but which are terrible as indicators of the true composition of a soul.

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If there is a faith which can move mountains, then it is a faith in one's own strength.

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There are intellects that shine and there are those that sparkle. The former illuminate matters, the latter obscure them.

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Never expect women to be sincere so long as they are educated to think that their first aim in life is to please.

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One of the main goals of self-education is to eradicate that vanity in us without which we would never have been educated.

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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.

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With our parents we bury our past, with our children our future.

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The world would be in better shape if people would take the same pains in the practice of the simplest moral laws as they exert in intellectualizing over the most subtle moral questions.

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Hobbies protect us from passions. One hobby becomes a passion.

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Only those few people who practice it believe in goodness.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Dilettantes have not achieved anything lasting even in the applied arts. But they have rendered some service to the highest of all disciplines: philosophy. Montaigne, La Rochefoucauld, Vauvenargues are proof of this.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
An apparent contradiction of a natural law is only the rarely occurring proof of another natural law.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach