Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Conquer, but don't triumph.

Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.

Imaginary evils are incurable.

He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.

Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.

Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.

Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.

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.

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

Nobody knows enough, but many know too much.

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

Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.

Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.

So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.