“Nowadays people are born to find fault. When they look at Achilles, they see only his heel.”

—  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Die jetzigen Menschen sind zum tadeln geboren. Vom ganzen Achilles sehen sie nur die Ferse.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 19.

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