Beware of Boasted Virtue – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

„Beware of the virtue which a man boasts is his.“

Marie von Ebner-EschenbachMarie von Ebner-Eschenbach warns about virtue people boast of. An aphorism on false self-justification.
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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach was an Austrian writer of the 19th century, known for her psychological novellas and aphorisms.

An aphorism warning against false self-justification.


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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916) was a prominent Austrian writer, best known for her realistic and psychologically profound novellas, plays, and aphorisms. She is considered one of the most important German-speaking female authors of the 19th century and often addressed social injustices and human weaknesses.

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"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself. For, it is difficult to both keep your faculty of choice in a state conformable to nature, and at the same time acquire external things. But while you are careful about the one, you must of necessity neglect the other" Epiktet
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