Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes

In youth we learn in age we understand.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Do your duty until it becomes your joy.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
They understand but little who understand only what can be explained.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
As far as your self-control goes as far goes your freedom.
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
Conquer but never triumph.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
We must prepare and study truth under every aspect endeavoring to ignore nothing if we do not wish to fall into the abyss of the unknown when the hour shall strike.
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
Nothing is so often irretrievably missed as a daily opportunity.
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
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
We must prepare and study truth under every aspect endeavoring to ignore nothing if we do not wish to fall into the abyss of the unknown when the hour shall strike.
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
Nothing is so often irretrievably missed as a daily opportunity.
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
Only the thinking man lives his life the thoughtless man's life passes him by.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Whenever two good people argue over principles they are both right.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
To have and not to give is often worse than to steal.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
We can be wise from goodness and good from wisdom.
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
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
The incurable ills are the imaginary ills
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.
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
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
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