Georg Ebers Quotes

• Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

  Georg Ebers

  Friendship, Two Friends, Genuine Friends

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• True love does not paralyze, but doubles the high qualities of man.

  Georg Ebers

  Men, Quality, Doe

  Georg Ebers (1895). “Cleopatra (Complete)”, p.179, Library of Alexandria

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• Happiness is only the threshold to misery. When a friend refuses to share in joys.

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  Joy, Misery, Share

  Georg Ebers “The Historical Romances of Georg Ebers”, Library of Alexandria

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• Youth has a right to go astray now and then Feeling themselves oppressed by the benevolence.

  Georg Ebers

  Feelings, Youth, Now And Then

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• People who have nothing to do always lack time. Perish all those who do not think as we do. Reason is a feeble weapon in contending with a woman. Words that sounded kindly, but with a cold, unloving heart.

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  Heart, Thinking, People

  Georg Ebers “The Historical Romances of Georg Ebers”, Library of Alexandria

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• Christian hypocrites who pretend to hate life and love death. He may talk about the soul-what he is after is the girl Love means suffering-those who love drag a chain with them. To her it was not a belief but a certainty Trifling incident gains importance when undue emphasis is laid.

  Georg Ebers

  Girl, Christian, Life And Love

  Georg Ebers “The Historical Romances of Georg Ebers”, Library of Alexandria

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• Pretended to see nothing in the old woman's taunts. Very hard to imagine nothingness.

  Georg Ebers

  Imagine, Taunting, Old Woman

  Georg Ebers “The Historical Romances of Georg Ebers”, Library of Alexandria

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• Christianity had ceased to be the creed of the poor. He spoke with pompous exaggeration. Whether man were the best or the worst of created beings.

  Georg Ebers

  Men, Christianity, Poor

  Georg Ebers “The Historical Romances of Georg Ebers”, Library of Alexandria

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• Great happiness, and mingled therefor with bitter sorrow. It is not by enthusiasm but by tactics that we defeat a foe.

  Georg Ebers

  Sorrow, Tactics, Enthusiasm

  Georg Ebers (2015). “Serapis”, p.397, BookRix

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