Marie Von Ebner Eschenbach Quotes

• We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don’t care for.

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• Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.

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• Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

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• What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.

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• We don’t believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

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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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• To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.

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• Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.

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• 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.

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• So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.

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• Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.

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• Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.

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• None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don’t know how to make use of the old ones.

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• Nobody knows enough, but many know too much.

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• Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.

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• In youth we learn; in age we understand.

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• Imaginary evils are incurable.

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• If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.

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• He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.

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• Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.

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Marie Von Ebner Eschenbach (27)

Birth:	13th September, 1830
Death:	12th March, 1916
Nationality:	Austrian
Profession:	Writer

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Baroness Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach was an Austrian writer. Noted for her excellent psychological novels, she is regarded—together with Ferdinand von Saar as one of the most important German-language writers of the latter portion of the 19th century.

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