“Two very different virtues can attack one another long and viciously. But the time will come when they recognize that they are sisters.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Zwei sehr verschiedene Tugenden können einander lange und scharf befehden; der Augenblick bleibt nicht aus, in dem sie erkennen, daß sie Schwestern sind.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 32.

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Zwei sehr verschiedene Tugenden können einander lange und scharf befehden; der Augenblick bleibt nicht aus, in dem sie erkennen, daß sie Schwestern sind.

Aphorisms (1880/1893)

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