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Famous Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes
“Do not fear the ones who argue, but rather those who are evasive.”
“Never strive, O artist, to create what you are not irresistibly impelled to create!”
“The believer who has never doubted will hardly convert a doubter.”
“A book cannot easily be too bad for the general public, but may easily be too good.”
“There are more truths in a good book than its author meant to put in it.”
“Those who cannot remember clearly their own childhood are poor educators.”
“With our parents we bury our past, with our children our future.”
“Many think that when they have confessed a fault there is no need of correcting it.”
“All that is due to us will be paid, although not perhaps by those to whom we have lent.”
“Consider once before you give, twice before you receive, and a thousand times before you ask.”
“One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time.”
“Distrust your judgment the moment you can discern the shadow of a personal motive in it.”
“The little bit of truth contained in many a lie is what makes them so terrible.”
“We ask the poet: 'What subject have you chosen?' instead of: 'What subject has chosen you?”
“When two good men contend about principles, both are always right.”
“I regret nothing, says arrogance; I will regret nothing, says inexperience.”
“The poor never estimate as a virtue the generosity of the rich.”
“Our greatest indulgence towards a man springs from our despair of him.”
“If there is a believe that is capable to move mountains it is the believe in our own strength.”
“You can sink so fast that you think you are flying.”
“To be satisfied with little is hard, to be satisfied with a lot is impossible.”
“To accept reason is impossible if you don't already possess it.”
“Only those few people who practice it believe in goodness.”
“Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.”