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Quotes from Aphorisms — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

1830–1916 Austria

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The insignificant labor, the great create.

Aphorisms (1880)

Old age either romanticises or ossifies.

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The intellect and the heart are on good terms with one another. One often represents the other so perfectly, that it is hard to determine which of the two was at work.

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The scale we measure things by is the measure of our own mind.

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Nowadays people are born to find fault. When they look at Achilles, they see only his heel.

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What do people like to call stupid the most? Something sensible that they can’t understand.

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Two very different virtues can attack one another long and viciously. But the time will come when they recognize that they are sisters.

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In youth we learn; in old age we understand.

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There are a host of bad habits and inconsiderate acts which mean nothing in themselves but which are terrible as indicators of the true composition of a soul.

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The world would be in better shape if people would take the same pains in the practice of the simplest moral laws as they exert in intellectualizing over the most subtle moral questions.

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Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy.

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There are intellects that shine and there are those that sparkle. The former illuminate matters, the latter obscure them.

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Vorurteil stützt die Throne, Unwissenheit die Altäre.

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Spoiled children … already get to know in early years the sufferings of the tyrant.

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We should always forgive. We should forgive the repentant for their sake, the unrepentant for our sake.

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In misfortune we usually regain the peace that we were robbed of through fear of that very misfortune.

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When your absolutely only choice is between an untruth and rudeness, then choose rudeness; if, however, your choice is between an untruth and cruelty, then choose untruth.

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Be patient with the belligerence of the simple-minded. It is not easy to understand that one doesn’t understand

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Alberne Leute sagen Dummheiten. Gescheite Leute machen sie.

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Chance is necessity shrouded in a veil.

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.