Best Quotes by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (Top 10)
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To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.
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Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
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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
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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.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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In youth we learn; in age we understand.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
More Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes
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We can be wise from goodness and good from wisdom.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Conquer but never triumph.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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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
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They understand but a little who understand only what can be explained.
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