Top 100 Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes
#1. Nobody knows enough, but many know too much.
#2. Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone.
#3. Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.
#4. In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.
#5. To be young is delightful; to be old is comfortable.
#6. Between being able to and actually doing something lies an ocean, and on its bottom rests all too often the wreck of willpower.
#7. Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.
#8. If there be a faith that can move mountains, it is faith in one's own power.
#9. Genius points the way, talent takes it.
#10. Not reading a beautiful book again because you've already read it, that is, as if you were not visiting a dear friend again because you know him already.
#11. We are valued wither too highly or not high enough; we are never taken at our real worth.
#12. With our parents we bury our past, with our children our future.
#13. Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.
#14. Passion is always suffering, even when gratified.
#15. How wise must one be to be always kind.
#16. Conquer, but never triumph.
#17. Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants' quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty.
#18. To be satisfied with little is hard, to be satisfied with a lot is impossible.
#19. The believer who has never doubted will hardly convert a doubter.
#20. Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.
#21. Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled.
#22. Generosity, to be perfect, should always be accompanied by a dash of humor.
#23. The poor never estimate as a virtue the generosity of the rich.
#24. The wise man is seldom prudent.
#25. What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.
#26. They understand but a little who understand only what can be explained.
#27. Only those few people who practice it believe in goodness.
#28. Origins are of the greatest importance. We are almost reconciled to having a cold when we remember where we caught it.
#29. The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time.
#30. Wit is an intermittent fountain; kindness is a perennial spring.
#31. The insignificant labor; the great create.
#32. So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.
#33. He who says patience, says courage, endurance, strength.
#34. Blessed is trust, for it blesses both those who have it to give and those who receive it.
#35. What you wish to do you are apt to think you ought to do.
#36. Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.
#37. The mediocre always feel as if they're fighting for their lives when confronted by the excellent.
#38. The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them.
#39. Beware of the virtue which a man boasts is his.
#40. We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
#41. Kindness which is not inexhaustible does not deserve the name.
#42. Many think that when they have confessed a fault there is no need of correcting it.
#43. Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.
#44. None are so inconsiderate as those who demand nothing of life other than their own personal comfort.
#45. A defeat borne with pride is also a victory.
#46. One thought cannot awake without awakening others.
#47. You can sink so fast that you think you are flying.
#48. To accept reason is impossible if you don't already possess it.
#49. There are very few honest friends
the demand is not particularly great.
#50. That bad manners are so prevalent in the world is the fault of good manners.
#51. The moral code which was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for our children.
#52. It is difficult to see the person who admires us as stupid.
#53. To have and not to give is often worse than to steal.
#54. Never expect women to be sincere, so long as they are educated to think that their first aim in life is to please.
#55. Those who know nothing must believe everything.
#56. Distrust your judgment the moment you can discern the shadow of a personal motive in it.
#57. Many think they have a kind heart who have only weak nerves.
#58. The incurable ills are the imaginary ills.
#59. Indifference of every kind is reprehensible, even indifference towards one's self.
#60. New happiness too must be learned to bear.
#61. Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.
#62. In youth we learn; in age we understand.
#63. There is something so beautiful in trust that even the most hardened liar need feel a certain respect for those who confide in him.
#64. There is only one proof of ability - action.
#65. There are more truths in a good book than its author meant to put in it.
#66. If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.
#67. All that is due to us will be paid, although not perhaps by those to whom we have lent.
#68. However much you paid for a beautiful illusion, you got a bargain.
#69. He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.
#70. A man with lofty ideas is an uncomfortable neighbor.
#71. One of the main goals of self-education is to eradicate that vanity in us without which we would never have been educated.
#72. We can be wise from goodness and good from wisdom.
#73. As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom.
#74. The little bit of truth contained in many a lie is what makes them so terrible.
#75. The manuscript in the drawer either rots or ripens.
#76. To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.
#77. Who doesn't know anything, has to believe everything.
#78. Many priceless things can be bought.
#79. Nowadays people are born to find fault. When they look at Achilles, they see only his heel.
#80. N every exalted joy, there mingles a sense of gratitude.
#81. One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time.
#82. Happy slaves are the bitterest enemies of freedom.
#83. We should always forgive. We should forgive the repentant for their sake, the unrepentant for our sake.
#84. Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend.
#85. Our greatest indulgence towards a man springs from our despair of him.
#86. Nothing is so irretrievably missed as an opportunity we encounter every day.
#87. Much less evil would be done on earth if evil could not be done in the name of good.
#88. There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister.
#89. I regret nothing, says arrogance; I will regret nothing, says inexperience.
#90. Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.
#91. 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.
#92. A book cannot easily be too bad for the general public, but may easily be too good.
#93. None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones.
#94. Consider well before you immerse yourself in solitude whether your own company will be good for you.
#95. Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy.
#96. An opinion may be controverted; a prejudice, never.
#97. Those who cannot remember clearly their own childhood are poor educators.
#98. Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.
#99. An intelligent woman has millions of born enemies ... all the stupid men.
#100. Enthusiasm does not always speak for those who arouse it, but always for those who experience it.
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