Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach's Quotes

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

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

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

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

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

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

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

Conquer, but don't triumph.

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

Nobody knows enough, but many know too much.

Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.

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

Imaginary evils are incurable.

So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.

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.

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.

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

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

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

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

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

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