Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes
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A defeat borne with pride is also a victory.
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An aphorism is the last link in a long chain of thought.
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Grace is the outcome of inward harmony.
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Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed.
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Age either transfigures or petrifies.
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We are valued wither too highly or not high enough; we are never taken at our real worth.
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We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
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They understand but a little who understand only what can be explained.
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There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister.
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Kindness which is not inexhaustible does not deserve the name.
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We are not always even what we are most.
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Passion is always suffering, even when gratified.
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If there is a believe that is capable to move mountains it is the believe in our own strength.
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Hatred is a prolific vice; envy, a barren vice.
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Wit is an intermittent fountain; kindness is a perennial spring.
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n every exalted joy, there mingles a sense of gratitude.
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The sympathy of most people consists of a mixture of good-humour, curiosity, and self-importance.
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When curiosity turns to serious matters, it's called research.
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A man with lofty ideas is an uncomfortable neighbor.
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Conquer but never triumph.
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We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for.
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Who doesn't know anything, has to believe everything.
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To be satisfied with little is hard, to be satisfied with a lot is impossible.
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If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.
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It's bad enough when married people bore one another, but it's much worse when only one of them bores the other.
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The incurable ills are the imaginary ills.
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Where would the power of women be, were it not for the vanity of men?
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Imaginary evils are incurable.
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The insignificant labor, the great create.
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There are more truths in a good book than its author meant to put in it.
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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
- Born: September 13, 1830
- Died: March 12, 1916
- Occupation: Writer
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