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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Age: 86 †
Born: 1830
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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The poor never estimate as a virtue the generosity of the rich.
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Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone.
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Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.
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Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.
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Who doesn't know anything, has to believe everything.
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I regret nothing, says arrogance I will regret nothing, says inexperience.
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Indifference of every kind is reprehensible, even indifference towards one's self.
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An aphorism is the last link in a long chain of thought.
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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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Conquer, but don't triumph.
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When two good men contend about principles, both are always right.
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Those who cannot remember clearly their own childhood are poor educators.
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In this world, all power rests upon force.
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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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An intelligent woman has millions of born enemies... all the stupid men.
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He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.
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Be the first to say something obvious and achieve immortality.
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He who says patience, says courage, endurance, strength.
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Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.
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If there be a faith that can move mountains, it is faith in one's own power.
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