Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes - Page 6

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• He who says patience, says courage, endurance, strength.

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  Patience, Endurance

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• Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns.

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  Suits Of Armor, Thorns, Misanthropy

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

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• A man with lofty ideas is an uncomfortable neighbor.

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  Men, Ideas, Neighbor

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

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  Solitude, Be Good, Wells

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

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• Indifference of every kind is reprehensible, even indifference towards one's self.

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  Self, Kind, Indifference

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

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• If there be a faith that can move mountains, it is faith in one's own power.

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  Faith, Self Esteem, Moving

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• However much you paid for a beautiful illusion, you got a bargain.

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  Beautiful, Illusion, Bargains

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

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• The incurable ills are the imaginary ills.

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  Imaginary

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• The poor never estimate as a virtue the generosity of the rich.

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  Generosity, Rich, Virtue

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• The sympathy of most people consists of a mixture of good-humour, curiosity, and self-importance.

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  Sympathy, Self, People

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• Enthusiasm does not always speak for those who arouse it, but always for those who experience it.

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  Doe, Enthusiasm, Speak

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

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• Never strive, O artist, to create what you are not irresistibly impelled to create!

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  Passion, Creativity, Artist

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• Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.

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  Tree, Thistles, Young

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

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  Love, Husband, Nun

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• Not every great man is a grand human being.

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  Men, Great Men, Humans

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• New happiness too must be learned to bear.

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  Happiness, Bears

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• Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.

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  Harbinger, Proof, Exception

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

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• Not reading a beautiful book again because you've already read it, that is, as if you were not visiting a dear friend again because you know him already.

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  Beautiful, Book, Reading

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

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  Fighting, Excellence, Excellent

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

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• Where would the power of women be, were it not for the vanity of men?

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  Men, Vanity

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• Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs.

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  Art, Morality, Virtue

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• Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled.

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  Wish, Unattainable, Fulfilled

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• How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.

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  Joy, Pessimism, Pessimist

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

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  Balance, Littles, Impossible

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• When two good men contend about principles, both are always right.

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  Men, Two, Good Man

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