Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.
Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.
Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.
The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.
Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.
Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.
So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.
Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.
Nobody knows enough, but many know too much.
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.
Imaginary evils are incurable.
Conquer, but don't triumph.
Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.
When the time comes in which one could, the time has passed in which one can.Collection: Inspirational
When curiosity turns to serious matters, it's called research.Collection: Curiosity
There is only one proof of ability - action.Collection: Action
We should always forgive. We should forgive the repentant for their sake, the unrepentant for our sake.Collection: Forgiving
Happy slaves are the bitterest enemies of freedom.Collection: Enemy
You stay young as long as you can learn, acquire new habits, and suffer contradictions.Collection: Long
Many think they have a kind heart who have only weak nerves.Collection: Heart
If there is a believe that is capable to move mountains it is the believe in our own strength.Collection: Believe
An intelligent woman has millions of born enemies... all the stupid men.Collection: Stupid
Do not consider yourself deprived because your dreams were not fulfilled; the truly deprived have never dreamed.Collection: Dream
Many think that when they have confessed a fault there is no need of correcting it.Collection: Thinking
He who has trusted where he ought not will surely mistrust where he ought not.Collection: Trust
Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone.Collection: Desire
As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom.Collection: Self
Generosity, to be perfect, should always be accompanied by a dash of humor.Collection: Generosity
Those who know nothing must believe everything.Collection: Believe
How wise must one be to be always kind.Collection: Wise
Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty.Collection: Moving
Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.Collection: Opportunity
Never expect women to be sincere, so long as they are educated to think that their first aim in life is to please.Collection: Women
None are so inconsiderate as those who demand nothing of life other than their own personal comfort.Collection: Comfort
Accident is veiled necessity.Collection: Accidents
There are times when to be reasonable is to be cowardly.Collection: Reason
It is unfortunate that superior talent and superior men are so seldom united.Collection: Men
With our parents we bury our past, with our children our future.Collection: Children
A man with lofty ideas is an uncomfortable neighbor.Collection: Men
However much you paid for a beautiful illusion, you got a bargain.Collection: Beautiful
The incurable ills are the imaginary ills.Collection: Imaginary
To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.Collection: Balance
In this world, all power rests upon force.Collection: Power
The believer who has never doubted will hardly convert a doubter.Collection: Doubt
Never strive, O artist, to create what you are not irresistibly impelled to create!Collection: Passion
Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.Collection: Tree
Enthusiasm does not always speak for those who arouse it, but always for those who experience it.Collection: Doe
There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister.Collection: Love
Believe flatterers and you're lost; believe your enemies and you despair.Collection: Believe