Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach quotes - page 3

To accept reason is impossible if you don't already possess it. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Consider well before you immerse yourself in solitude whether your own company will be good for you. View quote
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A defeat borne with pride is also a victory. View quote
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Indifference of every kind is reprehensible, even indifference towards one's self. View quote
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Blessed is trust, for it blesses both those who have it to give and those who receive it. View quote
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One thought cannot awake without awakening others. View quote
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Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns. View quote
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We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for. View quote
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Be the first to say something obvious and achieve immortality. View quote
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Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy. View quote
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One has to do good in order for it to exist in the world. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Old age transfigures or fossilizes. View quote
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Nothing is less promising than precociousness; the young thistle looks much more like a future tree than the young oak. View quote
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No one is so keen to gather ever newer impressions as those who do not know how to process the old ones. View quote
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The insignificant labor, the great create. View quote
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There are very few honest friends-the demand is not particularly great. View quote
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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. View quote
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Wags are beggars in the realm of the intellect; they live on alms tossed to them by fortune-on flashes of wit. View quote
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It is not those who argue who are to be feared but those who evade argument. View quote
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There are intellects that shine and there are those that sparkle. The former illuminate matters, the latter obscure them. View quote
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We are so vain that we value the opinion even of those whose opinions we find worthless. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
A poor, charitable person can sometimes feel rich, a miserly Croesus never. View quote
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There are a host of bad habits and inconsiderate acts which mean nothing in themselves but which are terrible as indicators of the true composition of a soul. View quote
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Those who trusted at the wrong time and place will in turn mistrust at the wrong time and place. View quote
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Vanity rejects all healthy nourishment and lives exclusively on the poison of flattery. View quote
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