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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Age: 86 †
Born: 1830
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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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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The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time.
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Believe flatterers and you're lost believe your enemies and you despair.
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Who doesn't know anything, has to believe everything.
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The little bit of truth contained in many a lie is what makes them so terrible.
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He who says patience, says courage, endurance, strength.
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Distrust your judgment the moment you can discern the shadow of a personal motive in it.
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The sympathy of most people consists of a mixture of good-humour, curiosity, and self-importance.
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Conquer but never triumph.
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The poor never estimate as a virtue the generosity of the rich.
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Do not consider yourself deprived because your dreams were not fulfilled the truly deprived have never dreamed.
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One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time.
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Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed.
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There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister.
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Morals refine manners, as manners refine morals.
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Most imitators attempt the inimitable.
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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.
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Unattainable wishes are often pious. This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled.
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Even virtue is an art and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs.
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