Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes
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A poor, charitable person can sometimes feel rich, a miserly Croesus never.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Rational beings despise nothing so much as that magnanimity that they themselves feel incapable of.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
The little bit of truth contained in many a lie is what makes them so terrible.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
All that is due to us will be paid, although not perhaps by those to whom we have lent.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
No one is so keen to gather ever newer impressions as those who do not know how to process the old ones.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Blessed is trust, for it blesses both those who have it to give and those who receive it.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
You stay young as long as you can learn, acquire new habits and suffer contradiction.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Those who trusted at the wrong time and place will in turn mistrust at the wrong time and place.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
The world belongs to those who possess it, and is scorned by those to whom it should belong.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
The mediocre always feel as if they're fighting for their lives when confronted by the excellent.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
The vain and weak see a judge in everyone; the proud and strong know no judge other than themselves.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach