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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Age: 86 †
Born: 1830
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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Where would the power of women be, were it not for the vanity of men?
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Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.
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Who doesn't know anything, has to believe everything.
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The poor never estimate as a virtue the generosity of the rich.
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Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.
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He who says patience, says courage, endurance, strength.
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It's bad enough when married people bore one another, but it's much worse when only one of them bores the other.
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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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Calmness is the graceful form of Confidence.
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I regret nothing, says arrogance I will regret nothing, says inexperience.
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Consider well before you immerse yourself in solitude whether your own company will be good for you.
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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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To be satisfied with little is hard, to be satisfied with a lot is impossible.
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Blessed is trust, for it blesses both those who have it to give and those who receive it.
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Nobody knows enough, but many know too much.
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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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If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.
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One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time.
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We should always forgive. We should forgive the repentant for their sake, the unrepentant for our sake.
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We ask the poet: 'What subject have you chosen?' instead of: 'What subject has chosen you?
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