Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“Have compassion for everyone, but admiration for only a few.”

“Misanthropy is a slow suicide.”

“A witty saying proves nothing.”

“One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.”

“Fear is in many cases a form of daring.”

“Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”

“In youth we learn; in age we understand.”

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

“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”

“The desire to seem clever often prevents one from becoming so.”

“There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.”

“Be the master of your will and the servant of your conscience.”

“An aphorism is the last link in a long chain of thought.”

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

“Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.”

“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”

“Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.”