“Hate only injustice and not those who commit it.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Wenn wir nur das Unrecht hassen und nicht Diejenigen, die es thun, werden wir unsere Kampfgenossen und unsere Feinde lieben.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 73.

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Austrian writer 1830–1916

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