Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes - Page 3

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• "People's minds are trained largely at the expense of their hearts." This is not so; it is only that there are more educable minds than there are educable hearts.

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  Heart, People, Mind

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• Runners are poor walkers.

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  Personality, Poor, Runners

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• Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Understanding

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

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  Communication, Two, People

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• The little bit of truth contained in many a lie is what makes them so terrible.

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  Lying, Littles, Terrible

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

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• None are so inconsiderate as those who demand nothing of life other than their own personal comfort.

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  Comfort, Demand, Inconsiderate

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

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• What you wish to do you are apt to think you ought to do.

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  Thinking, Wish, Wishful Thinking

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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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• 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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• Age either transfigures or petrifies.

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  Age

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• So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.

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  Fashion, Style, Universal

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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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• To accept reason is impossible if you don't already possess it.

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  Impossible, Reason, Accepting

  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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• 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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• 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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