If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Nowadays people are born to find fault. When they look at Achilles, they see only his heel. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
The sympathy of most people consists of a mixture of good-humour, curiosity, and self-importance. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
"People's minds are trained largely at the expense of their hearts." This is not so; it is only that there are more… — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
It's bad enough when married people bore one another, but it's much worse when only one of them bores the other. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Only those few people who practice it believe in goodness. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and… — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Where would the power of women be, were it not for the vanity of men? — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
“Much less evil would be done on earth if evil could not be done in the name of good. ” — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
