Quotes from Aphorisms — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
1830–1916 Austria
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If there is a faith which can move mountains, then it is a faith in one’s own strength.
Vanity rejects all healthy nourishment and lives exclusively on the poison of flattery.
As an artist, you should not wish to create what you don’t feel you have to create.
If you walk down a well-trodden path long enough, you eventually end up alone.
It is not those who argue who are to be feared but those who evade argument.
There are very few honest friends—the demand is not particularly great.
An understanding of beauty and enthusiasm for it are one and the same.
The greatest leveler is politeness; it removes all class distinctions.
One should be selfish enough to be selfless up to a certain point.
If art finds the temple closed, then it flees into the workshop.
To accept reason is impossible if you don’t already possess it.
Be the first to say something obvious and achieve immortality.
It is difficult to see the person who admires us as stupid.
One thought cannot awake without awakening others.
Hate only injustice and not those who commit it.
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