If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
rights day clock clocks
Imaginary evils are incurable
evil imaginary
So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.
fashion date universal
He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated
freedom
idea people good ideas
Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them
faults children parents forgive
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
popularity self-awareness vain care vanity opinion
Privilege is the greatest enemy of right
enemy privilege
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
age youth learn understand
To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.
content materialism difficult impossible
Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy.
pessimism joy
Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.
opportunity
Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.
rights principles people
Nowadays people are born to find fault. When they look at Achilles, they see only his heel.
faults people
People who read only the classics are sure to remain up-to-date.
people
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