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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach [1830-1916] Austrian
Rank: 101
Novelist, Writer


Baroness Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach was an Austrian writer. Noted for her excellent psychological novels, she is regarded—together with Ferdinand von Saar—as one of the most important German-language writers of the latter portion of the 19th century.

Age, Beauty, Business, Experience, Good, Learning, Love, Parenting



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If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty. Business, Good
101
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
102
In youth we learn; in age we understand. Age, Learning
103
What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible. Beauty
104
Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate. Experience
105
We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack. Love
106
To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.
107
Imaginary evils are incurable.
108
Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.
109
Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.
110
Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.
111
Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.
112
Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.
113
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.
114
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
115
Nobody knows enough, but many know too much.
116
Conquer, but don't triumph.
117
Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.
118
Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them. Parenting
119
None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones.
120
So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.
121
He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.
122

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