Top 140 Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Not every great man is a grand human being.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

52. “Be the first to say something obvious and achieve immortality.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

53. “In this world, all power rests upon force.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

55. “When the time comes in which one could, the time has passed in which one can.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

56. “Pity is love in undress.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

57. “Without imagination, there is no goodness, no wisdom.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

58. “Most imitators attempt the inimitable.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

59. “A defeat borne with pride is also a victory.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

60. “None are so inconsiderate as those who demand nothing of life other than their own personal comfort.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

61. “Only those few people who practice it believe in goodness.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

62. “Beware of the virtue which a man boasts is his.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

63. “People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

64. “We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

65. “Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man’s life passes him by.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

66. “Wit is an intermittent fountain; kindness is a perennial spring.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

67. “Passion is always suffering, even when gratified.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

68. “Many priceless things can be bought.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

69. “That bad manners are so prevalent in the world is the fault of good manners.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

70. “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.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

71. “They understand but a little who understand only what can be explained.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

72. “The insignificant labor; the great create.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

73. “There is something so beautiful in trust that even the most hardened liar need feel a certain respect for those who confide in him.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

74. “Genius points the way, talent takes it.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

75. “Do not fear the ones who argue, but rather those who are evasive.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

77. “A man with lofty ideas is an uncomfortable neighbor.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

78. “Age either transfigures or petrifies.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

79. “To accept reason is impossible if you don’t already possess it.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

81. “One has to do good in order for it to exist in the world.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

82. “Accident is veiled necessity.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

83. “What you wish to do you are apt to think you ought to do.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

84. “One thought cannot awake without awakening others.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

85. “Hatred is a prolific vice; envy, a barren vice.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

86. “We can be wise from goodness and good from wisdom.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

87. “He who says patience, says courage, endurance, strength.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

89. “Where would the power of women be, were it not for the vanity of men?”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

90. “To be young is delightful; to be old is comfortable.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

91. “The incurable ills are the imaginary ills.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

92. “Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

93. “Indifference of every kind is reprehensible, even indifference towards one’s self.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

94. “An opinion may be controverted; a prejudice, never.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

95. “We are not always even what we are most.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

96. “He who has trusted where he ought not will surely mistrust where he ought not.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

97. “Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

98. “Many think they have a kind heart who have only weak nerves.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

99. “There are times when to be reasonable is to be cowardly.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

100. “Blessed is trust, for it blesses both those who have it to give and those who receive it.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach