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

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Hobbies protect us from passions. One hobby becomes a passion.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
No one ever accomplished the ordinary who did not attempt the extraordinary.

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There are times when to be reasonable is to be cowardly.

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It is unfortunate that a good talent and a good man seldom come together.

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When art finds no temple open, it takes refuge in the workshop.

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Indifference of every kind is reprehensible, even indifference towards one's self.

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

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Physicians are hated either on principle or for financial reasons.

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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.

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Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.

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Those who were carried to a goal should not think they've reached it.

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One thought cannot awake without awakening others.

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I have often been told, on the occasion of the publication of some important scientific work, that 'whatever there is true in it is not new, and what is new is not true.' This means in plain language: 'we understand what we know, but that which we ought to know, we do not understand.'

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Those who cannot remember clearly their own childhood are poor educators.

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Prejudice supports thrones, ignorance altars.

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Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend.

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It's bad enough when married people bore one another, but it's much worse when only one of them bores the other.

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In misfortune we usually regain the peace that we were robbed of through fear of that very misfortune.

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None are so inconsiderate as those who demand nothing of life other than their own personal comfort.

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A poor, charitable person can sometimes feel rich, a miserly Croesus never.

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An aphorism is the last link in a long chain of thought.

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He who has trusted where he ought not will surely mistrust where he ought not.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach