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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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Biography - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach:

Austrian writer.
Born: 1830 - Died: 1916
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Czech Republic
Czech Republic

While love may overcome death, it happens that a small, mean habit can overcome love.



Translation

Translation

(German, French)



German
Die Liebe überwindet den Tod, aber es kommt vor, dass eine kleine üble Gewohnheit die Liebe überwindet.

French
L'amour l'emporte sur la mort, mais il arrive qu'une petite mauvaise habitude l'emporte sur l'amour.




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Quotes for: love


Quotes

Quotes about love:


Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.





Love, love, all the rest is nothing.





We have need of morality only for want of love.





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.





Intelligence has value only in the service of love.





There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.











Quotes for: death


Quotes

Quotes about death:


As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.





The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.





Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.





Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.





A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.





After your death you will be what you were before your birth.











Quotes for: habit


Quotes

Quotes for: habit


Custom is second nature.





The time at our disposal each day is elastic the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.





Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.





Custom, then, is the great guide to human life.





Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.





Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.











Quotes

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach also said...


To have and not to give is in some cases worse than stealing.





Mastery of the moment is mastery over life.





In all intense joy there is a feeling of gratitude.





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





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





In youth we learn; in age we understand.












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