Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes - Page 3

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• Age either transfigures or petrifies.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Age

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• Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

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  Fear, Dodge, Arguing

  "Aphorisms". Book by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1905.

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• Do not fear the ones who argue, but rather those who are evasive.

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  Arguing, Do Not Fear

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

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  Long, Links, Lasts

  "Aphorisms". Book by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880-1893.

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• Origins are of the greatest importance. We are almost reconciled to having a cold when we remember where we caught it.

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  Answers, Cold, Remember

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• There is something so beautiful in trust that even the most hardened liar need feel a certain respect for those who confide in him.

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  Trust, Beautiful, Liars

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• It's bad enough when married people bore one another, but it's much worse when only one of them bores the other.

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  People, Married, Enough

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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• That bad manners are so prevalent in the world is the fault of good manners.

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  Disrespect, Good Man, World

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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• Believe flatterers and you're lost; believe your enemies and you despair.

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  Believe, Enemy, Despair

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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• One remains young as long as one can still learn, can still take on new habits, can bear contradictions.

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  Long, Bears, Habit

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

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  Children, Parenting, Inspire

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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• Calmness is the graceful form of Confidence.

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  Form, Calmness

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• What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.

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  Beauty, Science, Delight

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• Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.

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  Teacher, Pain, Soul

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• The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time.

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  Truth, Experience, Firsts

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• The wise man is seldom prudent.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• No one is so eager to gain new experiences as he who doesn't know how to make use of the old ones.

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  New Experiences, Use, Gains

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

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  Hate, Believe, Hated

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• In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.

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  Friendship, Separation, Acquaintance

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• Only those few people who practice it believe in goodness.

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  Believe, Practice, People

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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

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  Vanity, Self, Goal

  "Aphorisms". Book by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880-1893.

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• Without imagination, there is no goodness, no wisdom.

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  Imagination, Goodness

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• Genius points the way, talent takes it.

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  Genius, Way, Talent

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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• Those whom we support hold us up in life.

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  Support

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

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  Life, Women, Conceited

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