Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes - Page 5

Old age transfigures or fossilizes.

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

Many a truth is the result of an error.

Runners are poor walkers.

We are valued wither too highly or not high enough; we are never taken at our real worth.

The insignificant labor, the great create.

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

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

Many priceless things can be bought.

So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.

Hatred is a prolific vice; envy, a barren vice.

There are more truths in a good book than its author meant to put in it.

When art find no temple open, it takes refuge in the workshop.

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

The world belongs to those who possess it, and is scorned by those to whom it should belong.

Imaginary evils are incurable.

People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction

Accident is veiled necessity.

In this world, all power rests upon force.

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

There are times when to be reasonable is to be cowardly.

It is unfortunate that superior talent and superior men are so seldom united.

With our parents we bury our past, with our children our future.

Conquer, but don't triumph.