Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes
An Austrian writer.
(1830 - 1916)
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As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom.
[Self Control]
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Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.
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Do your duty until it becomes your joy.
[Work]
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Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
[Forgiveness]
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Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.
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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
[Problems]
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He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.
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How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.
[Pessimism]
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If there be a faith that can move mountains, it is faith in one's own power.
[Self Confidence]
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If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.
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Imaginary evils are incurable.
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In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.
[Friendship]
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Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.
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Nobody knows enough, but many know too much.
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None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones.
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Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.
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Nothing is so often irretrievably missed as a daily opportunity.
[Opportunity]
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Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.
[Mornings]
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