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In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
It is unfortunate that superior talent and superior men are so seldom united.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
That bad manners are so prevalent in the world is the fault of good manners.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Kindness which is not inexhaustible does not deserve the name.
— 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
Our greatest indulgence towards a man springs from our despair of him.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
You can sink so fast that you think you are flying.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.
— 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
How wise must one be to be always kind.
— 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
There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
One thought cannot awake without awakening others.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Many think they have a kind heart who have only weak nerves.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Those who know nothing must believe everything.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Where would the power of women be, were it not for the vanity of men?
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Old age transfigures or fossilizes.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
In this world, all power rests upon force.
— 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
Only those few people who practice it believe in goodness.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns.
— 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
We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for.
— 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
An opinion may be controverted; a prejudice, never.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
An intelligent woman has millions of born enemies ... all the stupid men.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
The wise man is seldom prudent.
— 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
The moral code which was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for our children.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
We don't believe in rheumatism and and true love untill the first
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Do not fear the ones who argue, but rather those who are evasive.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Who doesn't know anything, has to believe everything.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
N every exalted joy, there mingles a sense of gratitude.
— 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
Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Grace is the outcome of inward harmony.
— 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
Many think that when they have confessed a fault there is no need of correcting it.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Runners are poor walkers.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Conquer, but don't triumph.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Morals refine manners, as manners refine morals.
— 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
Believe flatterers and you're lost; believe your enemies and you despair.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
New happiness too must be learned to bear.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Many a truth is the result of an error.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone.
— 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
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
You stay young as long as you can learn, acquire new habits, and suffer contradictions.
— 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
Conquer, but never triumph.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
I regret nothing, says arrogance; I will regret nothing, says inexperience.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.
— 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 insignificant labor; the great create.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Accident is veiled necessity.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Without imagination, there is no goodness, no wisdom.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
It is difficult to see the person who admires us as stupid.
— 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 manuscript in the drawer either rots or ripens.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Passion is always suffering, even when gratified.
— 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
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
We ask the poet: 'What subject have you chosen?' instead of: 'What subject has chosen you?
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
The poor never estimate as a virtue the generosity of the rich.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
To be young is delightful; to be old is comfortable.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
The believer who has never doubted will hardly convert a doubter.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
He who says patience, says courage, endurance, strength.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
When the time comes in which one could, the time has passed in which one can.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Those whom we support hold us up in life.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
When art find no temple open, it takes refuge in the workshop.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
We should always forgive. We should forgive the repentant for their sake, the unrepentant for our sake.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Distrust your judgment the moment you can discern the shadow of a personal motive in it.
— 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
Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
He who has trusted where he ought not will surely mistrust where he ought not.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
The little bit of truth contained in many a lie is what makes them so terrible.
— 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
If there is a believe that is capable to move mountains it is the believe in our own strength.
— 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
A man with lofty ideas is an uncomfortable neighbor.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.
— 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
Beware of the virtue which a man boasts is his.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
If there be a faith that can move mountains, it is faith in one's own power.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
The greatest enemy of justice is privilege.
— 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
People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
We can be wise from goodness and good from wisdom.
— 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
Hatred is a prolific vice; envy, a barren vice.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach