Marie Eschenbach Quotes & Sayings

We should always forgive. We should forgive the repentant for their sake, the unrepentant for our sake. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

Those who have trusted where they ought not,
will surely mistrust where they ought not.
-Marie von Ebnuer-Eschenbach — Aleatha Romig

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

An aphorism is the last link in a long chain of thought. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

Many a truth is the result of an error. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

You stay young as long as you can learn, acquire new habits, and suffer contradictions. — 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 incurable ills are the imaginary ills. — 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

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

The poor never estimate as a virtue the generosity of the rich. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

Origins are of the greatest importance. We are almost reconciled to having a cold when we remember where we caught it. — 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

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

There is only one proof of ability - action. — 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

Indifference of every kind is reprehensible, even indifference towards one's self. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date. — 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

Genius points the way, talent takes it. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

The believer who has never doubted will hardly convert a doubter. — 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

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

To have and not to give is often worse than to steal. — 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

He who says patience, says courage, endurance, strength. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

A defeat borne with pride is also a victory. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

We don't believe in rheumatism and and true love untill the first — 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

Never strive, O artist, to create what you are not irresistibly impelled to create! — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

I regret nothing, says arrogance; I will regret nothing, says inexperience. — 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

Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Grace is the outcome of inward harmony. — 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

Passion is always suffering, even when gratified. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

Those who know nothing must believe everything. — 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

"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

Calmness is the graceful form of Confidence. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Pity is love in undress. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

Who doesn't know anything, has to believe everything. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

One remains young as long as one can still learn, can still take on new habits, can bear contradictions. — 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

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

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. — 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

Distrust your judgment the moment you can discern the shadow of a personal motive in it. — 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

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. — 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

A book cannot easily be too bad for the general public, but may easily be too 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

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

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

Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Consider once before you give, twice before you receive, and a thousand times before you ask. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Where would the power of women be, were it not for the vanity of men? — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

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. — 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

Nothing is so irretrievably missed as an opportunity we encounter every day. — 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

Do not consider yourself deprived because your dreams were not fulfilled; the truly deprived have never dreamed. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

When the time comes in which one could, the time has passed in which one can. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

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