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

- Georg Ebers

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

- Georg Ebers

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 …

- Georg Ebers

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

- Georg Ebers

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. Wor…

- Georg Ebers

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

- Georg Ebers

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

- Georg Ebers

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

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

- Georg Ebers