“The scale we measure things by is the measure of our own mind.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Der Maßstab, den wir an die Dinge legen, ist das Maß unseres eigenen Geistes.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 52.

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