Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes - Page 6

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

Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns.

A man with lofty ideas is an uncomfortable neighbor.

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

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

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

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

The incurable ills are the imaginary ills.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Not every great man is a grand human being.

New happiness too must be learned to bear.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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