Marie Von Ebner Quotes

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

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

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.

Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy.

Much less evil would be done on earth if evil could not be done in the name of good.

Who doesn't know anything, has to believe everything.

Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.

So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.

Conquer, but never triumph.

Happy slaves are the bitterest enemies of freedom.

In youth we learn; in age we understand. – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend.

Onaj koga su odneli do cilja ne sme verovati da ga je dostigao

Do not consider yourself deprived because your dreams were not fulfilled; the truly deprived have never dreamed.

There are more truths in a good book than its author meant to put in it.

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

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

Nichts macht uns feiger und gewissenloser als der Wunsch, von allen Menschen geliebt zu werden.

So weit deine Selbstbeherrschung geht, so weit geht deine Freiheit.

One of the main goals of self-education is to eradicate that vanity in us without which we would never have been educated.

Consider well before you immerse yourself in solitude whether your own company will be good for you.

It is difficult to see the person who admires us as stupid.

Solo el que piensa tiene una vivencia de la propia vida; a los que no piensan, la vida les pasa de largo" - Marie Von Ebner - Eschenbach

Lesen ist ein großes Wunder.

Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns.

Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone.

Many priceless things can be bought.

Скучната книга има хубава страна, че приспива и критиците.

Der Gescheitere gibt nach! Eine traurige Wahrheit, sie begründet die Weltherrschaft der Dummheit.

Es gibt Fälle, in denen vernünftig sein, feige sein heißt.

Wir suchen die Wahrheit, finden wollen wir sie aber nur dort, wo es uns beliebt.

In youth we learn, in age we understand.” — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

The world would be in better shape if people would take the same pains in the practice of the simplest moral laws as they exert in intellectualizing over the most subtle moral questions.

There is only one proof of ability: action.

There is only one proof of ability: action

An aphorism is the last link in a long chain of thought.

Was ist Reue? Eine große Trauer darüber, dass wir sind, wie wir sind.

Die glücklichen Sklaven sind die erbittertsten Feinde der Freiheit.

Wenn es einen Glauben gibt, der Berge versetzen kann, so ist es der Glaube an die eigene Kraft.