Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach quotes

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Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Evil
Name
World
So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Fashion
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Age
Youth
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
Experience
Gain
Old
Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Experience
Fate
Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Enemy
Privilege
Right
If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
People
Idea
Will
Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
People
Principles
Right
Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Children
Faults
Parents
He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Freedom
Will
Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Old
Proof
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Day
Right
To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Content
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Care
Opinion
What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Beauty