Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes & Sayings

Kindness which is not inexhaustible does not deserve the name. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

There are very few honest friends
the demand is not particularly great. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

One thought cannot awake without awakening others. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

New happiness too must be learned to bear. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Beware of the virtue which a man boasts is his. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

However much you paid for a beautiful illusion, you got a bargain. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Generosity, to be perfect, should always be accompanied by a dash of humor. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Enthusiasm does not always speak for those who arouse it, but always for those who experience it. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

How wise must one be to be always kind. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

The sympathy of most people consists of a mixture of good-humour, curiosity, and self-importance. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

The incurable ills are the imaginary ills. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

In this world, all power rests upon force. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Do not fear the ones who argue, but rather those who are evasive. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

When two good men contend about principles, both are always right. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

An opinion may be controverted; a prejudice, never. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Happy slaves are the bitterest enemies of freedom. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

We ask the poet: 'What subject have you chosen?' instead of: 'What subject has chosen you? — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Accident is veiled necessity. — 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

Our greatest indulgence towards a man springs from our despair of him. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

It is difficult to see the person who admires us as stupid. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Consider well before you immerse yourself in solitude whether your own company will be good for you. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

That bad manners are so prevalent in the world is the fault of good manners. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Conquer, but never triumph. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Nowadays people are born to find fault. When they look at Achilles, they see only his heel. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

The moral code which was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for our children. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Only those few people who practice it believe in goodness. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Runners are poor walkers. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

One has to do good in order for it to exist in the world. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

It's bad enough when married people bore one another, but it's much worse when only one of them bores the other. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

The greatest enemy of justice is privilege. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Believe flatterers and you're lost; believe your enemies and you despair. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

There is something so beautiful in trust that even the most hardened liar need feel a certain respect for those who confide in him. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Many priceless things can be bought. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Age either transfigures or petrifies. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Many think that when they have confessed a fault there is no need of correcting it. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

It is unfortunate that superior talent and superior men are so seldom united. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

With our parents we bury our past, with our children our future. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

To be satisfied with little is hard, to be satisfied with a lot is impossible. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Never expect women to be sincere, so long as they are educated to think that their first aim in life is to please. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Without imagination, there is no goodness, no wisdom. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Much less evil would be done on earth if evil could not be done in the name of good.
— 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

There are more truths in a good book than its author meant to put in it. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

You can sink so fast that you think you are flying. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

Between being able to and actually doing something lies an ocean, and on its bottom rests all too often the wreck of willpower. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

They understand but a little who understand only what can be explained. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

A man with lofty ideas is an uncomfortable neighbor. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

A book cannot easily be too bad for the general public, but may easily be too good. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

"People's minds are trained largely at the expense of their hearts." This is not so; it is only that there are more educable minds than there are educable hearts. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

The wise man is seldom prudent. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Old age transfigures or fossilizes. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

In youth we learn; in age we understand. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Be the first to say something obvious and achieve immortality. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

We can be wise from goodness and good from wisdom. — 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

Not every great man is a grand human being. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

If there is a believe that is capable to move mountains it is the believe in our own strength. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

I regret nothing, says arrogance; I will regret nothing, says inexperience. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Those who cannot remember clearly their own childhood are poor educators. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Wit is an intermittent fountain; kindness is a perennial spring. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

To have and not to give is often worse than to steal. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Many think they have a kind heart who have only weak nerves. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

The insignificant labor; the great create. — 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

Imaginary evils are incurable. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

We don't believe in rheumatism and and true love untill the first — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

The manuscript in the drawer either rots or ripens. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Nobody knows enough, but many know too much. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

There are times when to be reasonable is to be cowardly. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Most imitators attempt the inimitable. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

To accept reason is impossible if you don't already possess it. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

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