Quotes from Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Our greatest indulgence towards a man springs from our despair of him.

The wise man is seldom prudent.

There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister.

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

Age either transfigures or petrifies.

The insignificant labor, the great create.

When art find no temple open, it takes refuge in the workshop.

Do your duty until it becomes your joy.

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

Calmness is the graceful form of Confidence.

The incurable ills are the imaginary ills

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

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

The mediocre always feel as if they're fighting for their lives when confronted by the excellent.

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

The moral code which was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for our children.

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

Nothing is so often irretrievably missed as a daily opportunity.

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

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

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

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

Even a stopped clock is right two times a day.