Georg Ebers quotes

“Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.”
-- Georg Ebers

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“True love does not paralyze, but doubles the high qualities of man.”
-- Georg Ebers

Source : 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.”
-- Georg Ebers

Source : 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

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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

Source : 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

Source : 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

Source : 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

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

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“No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.”

“I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly the sky became a bloody red... I stood there, trembling with fright. And I felt a loud, unending scream piercing nature.”

“I was walking down the road with two friends when the sun set; suddenly, the sky turned as red as blood. I stopped and leaned against the fence, feeling unspeakably tired. Tongues of fire and blood stretched over the bluish black fjord. My friends went on walking, while I lagged behind, shivering with fear. Then I heard the enormous infinite scream of nature.”

“Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.”

“When I was a kid, I had two friends, and they were imaginary and they would only play with each other.”

“If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky”

Source : S. E. Hinton (2012). “That Was Then, This Is Now”, p.28, Penguin

“If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.”

“Amnesty, that noble word, the genuine dictate of wisdom.”

Source : Demosthenes, Aeschines, Dinarchus (1836). “The Orations of Demosthenes”, p.159

“Our friendship is made up of these brief frenzied exchanges, but the quality of our conversation, for all its feverish outpouring, is genuine.”

“It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.”