Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Conquer, but don't triumph.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Imaginary evils are incurable.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

In youth we learn; in age we understand.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Nobody knows enough, but many know too much.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach


None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach