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    Title: Quotes and Images From The Novels of Georg Ebers

    Author: Georg Ebers
                Edited and Arranged by David Widger

    Release Date: August 29, 2004 [EBook #7542]
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The Novels Of Georg Ebers

Portrait Of Georg Ebers

Uarda

Cleopatra

Margery

Homo Sum—The Recluse

In The Fire Of The Forge

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    A noble mind can never swim with the
    stream

    A first impression is often a final one

    A small joy makes us to forget our
    heavy griefs

    A live dog is better than a dead king

    A well-to-do man always gets a higher
    price than a poor one

    A subdued tone generally provokes an
    equally subdued answer

    A dirty road serves when it makes for
    the goal

    A knot can often be untied by daylight

    A school where people learned modesty

    A word at the right time and place

    A mere nothing in one man's life, to
    another may be great

    A debtor, says the proverb, is half a
    prisoner

    A kind word hath far more power than an
    angry one

    A blustering word often does good
    service

    Abandon to the young the things we
    ourselves used most to enjoy

    Abandoned women (required by law to
    help put out the fires)

    Absence of suffering is not happiness

    Abuse not those who have outwitted thee

    Action trod on the heels of resolve

    Age is inquisitive

    Age when usually even bad liquor tastes
    of honey

    Aimless life of pleasure

    Air of a professional guide

    All I did was right in her eyes

    All things were alike to me

    Always more good things in a poor
    family which was once rich

    Among fools one must be a fool

    An admirer of the lovely color of his
    blue bruises

    Ancient custom, to have her ears cut
    off

    And what is great—and what is small

    Apis the progeny of a virgin cow and a
    moonbeam

    Appreciation of trifles

    Ardently they desire that which
    transcends sense

    Arrogant wave of the hand, and in an
    instructive tone

    Art ceases when ugliness begins

    As every word came straight from her
    heart

    Asenath, the wife of Joseph, had been
    an Egyptian

    Ask for what is feasible

    Aspect obnoxious to the gaze will pour
    water on the fire

    Assigned sixty years as the limit of a
    happy life

    At my age we count it gain not to be
    disappointed

    At my age every year must be accepted
    as an undeserved gift

    Attain a lofty height from which to
    look down upon others

    Avoid excessive joy as well as
    complaining grief

    Avoid all useless anxiety

    Be not merciful unto him who is a liar
    or a rebel

    Be happy while it is yet time

    Be cautious how they are compassionate

    Bearers of ill ride faster than the
    messengers of weal

    Before you serve me up so bitter a meal
    (the truth)

    Before learning to obey, he was
    permitted to command

    Begun to enjoy the sound of his own
    voice

    Behold, the puny Child of Man

    Between two stools a man falls to the
    ground

    Beware lest Satan find thee idle!

    Blessings go as quickly as they come

    Blind tenderness which knows no reason

    Blossom of the thorny wreath of sorrow

    Brief "eternity" of national covenants

    Brought imagination to bear on my
    pastimes

    But what do you men care for the
    suffering you inflict on others

    Buy indulgence for sins to be committed
    in the future

    By nature she is not and by
    circumstances is compelled to be

    Call everything that is beyond your
    comprehension a miracle

    Called his daughter to wash his feet

    Cambyses had been spoiled from his
    earliest infancy

    Camels, which were rarely seen in Egypt

    Can such love be wrong?

    Canal to connect the Nile with the Red
    Sea

    Cannot understand how trifles can make
    me so happy

    Caress or a spank from you—each at the
    proper time

    Carpe diem

    Cast my warning to the winds, pity will
    also fly away with it

    Cast off their disease as a serpent
    casts its skin

    Cast off all care; be mindful only of
    pleasure

    Catholic, but his stomach desired to be
    Protestant (Erasmus)

    Caught the infection and had to laugh
    whether she would or no

    Cautious inquiry saves recantation

    Child is naturally egotistical

    Child cannot distinguish between what
    is amusing and what is sad

    Childhood already lies behind me, and
    youth will soon follow

    Choose between too great or too small a
    recompense

    Christian hypocrites who pretend to
    hate life and love death

    Christianity had ceased to be the creed
    of the poor

    Clothes the ugly truth as with a
    pleasing garment

    Coach moved by electricity

    Colored cakes in the shape of beasts

    Comparing their own fair lot with the
    evil lot of others

    Confess I would rather provoke a
    lioness than a woman

    Confucius's command not to love our
    fellow-men but to respect

    Contempt had become too deep for hate

    Corpse to be torn in pieces by dogs and
    vultures

    Couple seemed to get on so perfectly
    well without them

    Creed which views life as a short
    pilgrimage to the grave

    Curiosity is a woman's vice

    Death is so long and life so short

    Death itself sometimes floats 'twixt
    cup and lip'

    Debts, but all anxiety concerning them
    is left to the creditors

    Deceit is deceit

    Deem every hour that he was permitted
    to breathe as a gift

    Deficient are as guilty in their eyes
    as the idle

    Desert is a wonderful physician for a
    sick soul

    Deserve the gratitude of my people,
    though it should be denied

    Desire to seek and find a power outside
    us

    Despair and extravagant gayety ruled
    her nature by turns

    Devoid of occupation, envy easily
    becomes hatred

    Did the ancients know anything of love

    Do not spoil the future for the sake of
    the present

    Do thoroughly whatever they do at all

    Does happiness consist then in
    possession

    Dread which the ancients had of the
    envy of the gods

    Dried merry-thought bone of a fowl

    Drink of the joys of life thankfully,
    and in moderation

    Drinking is also an art, and the
    Germans are masters of it

    Easy to understand what we like to hear

    Enjoy the present day

    Epicurus, who believed that with death
    all things ended

    Eros mocks all human efforts to resist
    or confine him

    Especial gift to listen keenly and
    question discreetly

    Ever creep in where true love hath
    found a nest—(jealousy)

    Every misfortune brings its fellow with
    it

    Everything that exists moves onward to
    destruction  and decay

    Evolution and annihilation

    Exceptional people are destined to be
    unhappy in this world

    Exhibit one's happiness in the streets,
    and conceal one's misery

    Eyes kind and frank, without tricks of
    glance

    Eyes are much more eloquent than all
    the tongues in the world

    Facts are differently reflected in
    different minds

    Fairest dreams of childhood were
    surpassed

    Faith and knowledge are things apart

    False praise, he says, weighs more
    heavily than disgrace

    Flattery is a key to the heart

    Flee from hate as the soul's worst foe

    Folly to fret over what cannot be
    undone

    For fear of the toothache, had his
    sound teeth drawn

    For the sake of those eyes you forgot
    all else

    For the errors of the wise the remedy
    is reparation, not regret

    For what will not custom excuse and
    sanctify?

    Forbidden the folly of spoiling the
    present by remorse

    Force which had compelled every one to
    do as his neighbors

    Forty or fifty, when most women only
    begin to be wicked

    From Epicurus to Aristippus, is but a
    short step

    Fruits and pies and sweetmeats for the
    little ones at home

    Full as an egg

    Galenus—What I like is bad for me,
    what I loathe is wholesome

    Gave them a claim on your person and
    also on your sorrows

    Germans are ever proud of a man who is
    able to drink deep

    Go down into the grave before us (Our
    children)

    Golden chariot drawn by tamed lions

    Good advice is more frequently unheeded
    than followed

    Great happiness, and mingled therefor
    with bitter sorrow

    Greeks have not the same reverence for
    truth

    Grief is grief, and this new sorrow
    does not change the old one

    Had laid aside what we call nerves

    Half-comprehended catchwords serve as a
    banner

    Hanging the last king with the guts of
    the last priest

    Happiness has nothing to do with our
    outward circumstances

    Happiness is only the threshold to
    misery

    Happiness should be found in making
    others happy

    Harder it is to win a thing the higher
    its value becomes

    Hast thou a wounded heart? touch it
    seldom

    Hat is the sign of liberty, and the
    free man keeps his hat on

    Hate, though never sated, can yet be
    gratified

    Hatred and love are the opposite ends
    of the same rod

    Hatred for all that hinders the growth
    of light

    Hatred between man and man

    Have not yet learned not to be
    astonished

    Have never been fain to set my heart on
    one only maid

    Have lived to feel such profound
    contempt for the world

    He may talk about the soul—what he is
    after is the girl

    He who kills a cat is punished (for
    murder)

    He who looks for faith must give faith

    He is clever and knows everything, but
    how silly he looks now

    He was steadfast in everything, even
    anger

    He only longed to be hopeful once more,
    to enjoy the present

    He who is to govern well must begin by
    learning to obey

    He was made to be plundered

    He is the best host, who allows his
    guests the most freedom

    He has the gift of being easily
    consoled

    He who wholly abjures folly is a fool

    He out of the battle can easily boast
    of being unconquered

    He spoke with pompous exaggeration

    Held in too slight esteem to be able to
    offer an affront

    Her white cat was playing at her feet

    Her eyes were like open windows

    Here the new custom of tobacco-smoking
    was practised

    His sole effort had seemed to be to
    interfere with no one

    Hold pleasure to be the highest good

    Hollow of the hand, Diogenes's
    drinking-cup

    Homo sum; humani nil a me alienum puto

    Honest anger affords a certain degree
    of enjoyment

    Hopeful soul clings to delay as the
    harbinger of deliverance

    How easy it is to give wounds, and how
    hard it is to heal

    How could they find so much pleasure in
    such folly

    How tender is thy severity

    How effective a consolation man
    possesses in gratitude

    Human sacrifices, which had been
    introduced into Egypt by the
    Phoenicians

    Human beings hate the man who shows
    kindness to their enemies

    I am human, nothing that is human can I
    regard as alien to me

    I approve of such foolhardiness

    I plead with voice and pen in behalf of
    fairy tales

    I must either rest or begin upon
    something new

    I cannot .  .  .  Say rather: I will
    not

    I know that I am of use

    I have never deviated from the exact
    truth even in jest

    I was not swift to anger, nor a liar,
    nor a violent ruler

    I do not like to enquire about our fate
    beyond the grave

    Idleness had long since grown to be the
    occupation of his life

    If you want to catch mice you must
    waste bacon

    If one only knew who it is all for

    If it were right we should not want to
    hide ourselves

    If speech be silver, silence then is
    gold!

    Ill-judgment to pronounce a thing
    impossible

    Impartial looker-on sees clearer than
    the player

    In order to find himself for once in
    good company—(Solitude)

    In whom some good quality or other may
    not be discovered

    In those days men wept, as well as
    women

    In this immense temple man seemed a
    dwarf in his own eyes

    In our country it needs more courage to
    be a coward

    In war the fathers live to mourn for
    their slain sons

    Inn, was to be found about every
    eighteen miles

    Inquisitive eyes are intrusive company

    Introduced a regular system of
    taxation-Darius

    It is not seeing, it is seeking that is
    delightful

    It was such a comfort once more to obey
    an order

    It is not by enthusiasm but by tactics
    that we defeat a foe

    It is the passionate wish that gives
    rise to the belief

    Jealousy has a thousand eyes

    Judge only by appearances, and never
    enquire into the causes

    Kisra called wine the soap of sorrow

    Know how to honor beauty; and prove it
    by taking many wives

    Last Day we shall be called to account
    for every word we utter

    Laugh at him with friendly mockery,
    such as hurts no man

    Laughing before sunrise causes tears at
    evening

    Learn early to pass lightly over little
    things

    Learn to obey, that later you may know
    how to command

    Life is not a banquet

    Life is a function, a ministry, a duty

    Life is the fairest fairy tale
    (Anderson)

    Life is valued so much less by the
    young

    Life had fulfilled its pledges

    Like the cackle of hens, which is
    peculiar to Eastern women

    Like a clock that points to one hour
    while it strikes another

    Love has two faces: tender devotion and
    bitter aversion

    Love means suffering—those who love
    drag a chain with them

    Love which is able and ready to endure
    all things

    Love laughs at locksmiths

    Love is at once the easiest and the
    most difficult

    Love overlooks the ravages of years and
    has a good memory

    Loved himself too much to give his
    whole affection to any one

    Lovers delighted in nature then as now

    Lovers are the most unteachable of
    pupils

    Maid who gives hope to a suitor though
    she has no mind to hear

    Man, in short, could be sure of nothing

    Man works with all his might for no one
    but himself

    Man is the measure of all things

    Man has nothing harder to endure than
    uncertainty

    Many creditors are so many allies

    Many a one would rather be feared than
    remain unheeded

    Marred their best joy in life by
    over-hasty ire

    May they avoid the rocks on which I
    have bruised my feet

    Medicines work harm as often as good

    Men studying for their own benefit, not
    the teacher's

    Men folks thought more about me than I
    deemed convenient

    Mirrors were not allowed in the convent

    Misfortune too great for tears

    Misfortunes commonly come in couples
    yoked like oxen

    Misfortunes never come singly

    Money is a pass-key that turns any lock

    More to the purpose to think of the
    future than of the past

    Mosquito-tower with which nearly every
    house was provided

    Most ready to be angry with those to
    whom we have been unjust

    Multitude who, like the gnats, fly
    towards every thing brilliant

    Museum of Alexandria and the Library

    Must take care not to poison the fishes
    with it

    Must—that word is a ploughshare which
    suits only loose soil

    Natural impulse which moves all old
    women to favor lovers

    Nature is sufficient for us

    Never speaks a word too much or too
    little

    Never so clever as when we have to find
    excuses for our own sins

    Never to be astonished at anything

    No judgment is so hard as that dealt by
    a slave to slaves

    No man is more than man, and many men
    are less

    No man was allowed to ask anything of
    the gods for himself

    No good excepting that from which we
    expect the worst

    No,  she was not created to grow old

    No happiness will thrive on bread and
    water

    No one we learn to hate more easily,
    than the benefactor

    No man gains profit by any experience
    other than his own

    No false comfort, no cloaking of the
    truth

    No one so self-confident and insolent
    as just such an idiot

    No virtue which can be owned like a
    house or a steed

    Nobody was allowed to be perfectly idle

    None of us really know anything rightly

    Not yet fairly come to the end of
    yesterday

    Nothing in life is either great or
    small

    Nothing is perfectly certain in this
    world

    Nothing permanent but change

    Nothing so certain as that nothing is
    certain

    Nothing is more dangerous to love, than
    a comfortable assurance

    Numbers are the only certain things

    Observe a due proportion in all things

    Obstacles existed only to be removed

    Obstinacy—which he liked to call firm
    determination

    Of two evils it is wise to choose the
    lesser

    Often happens that apparent superiority
    does us damage

    Old women grow like men, and old men
    grow like women

    Old age no longer forgets; it is youth
    that has a short memory

    Olympics—The first was fixed 776 B.C.

    Omnipotent God, who had preferred his
    race above all others

    On with a new love when he had left the
    third bridge behind him

    Once laughed at a misfortune, its sting
    loses its point

    One falsehood usually entails another

    One of those women who will not bear to
    be withstood

    One should give nothing up for lost
    excepting the dead

    One hand washes the other

    One must enjoy the time while it is
    here

    One who stood in the sun must need cast
    a shadow on other folks

    One Head, instead of three, ruled the
    Church

    Only the choice between lying and
    silence

    Only two remedies for heart-sickness:—
    hope and patience

    Ordered his feet to be washed and his
    head anointed

    Our thinkers are no heroes, and our
    heroes are no sages

    Overbusy friends are more damaging than
    intelligent enemies

    Overlooks his own fault in his feeling
    of the judge's injustice

    Ovid, 'We praise the ancients'

    Pain is the inseparable companion of
    love

    Papyrus Ebers

    Patronizing friendliness

    Pays better to provide for people's
    bodies than for their brains

    People who have nothing to do always
    lack time

    People see what they want to see

    Perish all those who do not think as we
    do

    Philosophers who wrote of the vanity of
    writers

    Phrase and idea "philosophy of
    religion" as an absurdity

    Pilgrimage to the grave, and death as
    the only true life

    Pious axioms to be repeated by the
    physician, while compounding

    Pleasant sensation of being a woman,
    like any other woman

    Possess little and require nothing

    Pray for me, a miserable man—for I was
    a man

    Precepts and lessons which only a
    mother can give

    Prefer deeds to words

    Preferred a winding path to a straight
    one

    Prepare sorrow when we come into the
    world

    Prepared for the worst; then you are
    armed against failure

    Pretended to see nothing in the old
    woman's taunts

    Priests that they should instruct the
    people to be obedient

    Priests: in order to curb the unruly
    conduct of the populace

    Principle of over-estimating the
    strength of our opponents

    Provide yourself with a self-devised
    ruler

    Rapture and anguish—who can lay down
    the border line

    Readers often like best what is most
    incredible

    Reason is a feeble weapon in contending
    with a woman

    Refreshed by the whip of one of the
    horsemen

    Regard the utterances and mandates of
    age as wisdom

    Regular messenger and carrier-dove
    service had been established

    Remember, a lie and your death are one
    and the same

    Repeated the exclamation: "Too late!"
    and again, "Too late!"

    Repos ailleurs

    Repugnance for the old laws began to
    take root in his heart

    Required courage to be cowardly

    Resistance always brings out a man's
    best powers

    Retreat behind the high-sounding words
    "justice and law"

    Robes cut as to leave the right breast
    uncovered

    Romantic love, as we know it, a result
    of Christianity

    Rules of life given by one man to
    another are useless

    Scarcely be able to use so large a sum—
    Then abuse it

    Scorned the censure of the people, he
    never lost sight of it

    Sea-port was connected with Medina by a
    pigeon-post

    Seditious words are like sparks, which
    are borne by the wind

    See facts as they are and treat them
    like figures in a sum

    Seems most charming at the time we are
    obliged to resign it

    Self-interest and egoism which drive
    him into the cave

    Sent for a second interpreter

    Shadow which must ever fall where there
    is light

    Shadow of the candlestick caught her
    eye before the light

    She would not purchase a few more years
    of valueless life

    Shipwrecked on the cliffs of 'better'
    and 'best'

    Should I be a man, if I forgot
    vengeance?

    Shuns the downward glance of compassion

    Sing their libels on women (Greek
    Philosophers)

    Sky as bare of cloud as the rocks are
    of shrubs and herbs

    Sleep avoided them both, and each knew
    that the other was awake

    Smell most powerful of all the senses
    in awakening memory

    So long as we are able to hope and wish

    So long as we do not think ourselves
    wretched, we are not so

    So hard is it to forego the right of
    hating

    Some caution is needed even in giving a
    warning

    Soul which ceases to regard death as a
    misfortune finds peace

    Speaking ill of others is their
    greatest delight

    Spoilt to begin with by their mothers,
    and then all the women

    Standing still is retrograding

    Strongest of all educational powers—
    sorrow and love

    Successes, like misfortunes, never come
    singly

    Take heed lest pride degenerate into
    vainglory

    Talk of the wolf and you see his tail

    Temples would be empty if mortals had
    nothing left to wish for

    Temples of the old gods were used as
    quarries

    Tender and uncouth natural sounds,
    which no language knows

    That tears were the best portion of all
    human life

    The heart must not be filled by
    another's image

    The blessing of those who are more than
    they seem

    The past belongs to the dead; only
    fools count upon the future

    The priests are my opponents, my
    masters

    The carp served on Christmas eve in
    every Berlin family

    The gods cast envious glances at the
    happiness of mortals

    The past must stand; it is like a scar

    The man who avoids his kind and lives
    in solitude

    The beautiful past is all he has to
    live upon

    The altar where truth is mocked at

    The older one grows the quicker the
    hours hurry away

    The shirt is closer than the coat

    The beginning of things is not more
    attractive

    The mother of foresight looks backwards

    The greatness he had gained he
    overlooked

    The dressing and undressing of the holy
    images

    The god Amor is the best schoolmaster

    The not over-strong thread of my good
    patience

    The man within him, and not on the
    circumstances without

    The scholar's ears are at his back:
    when he is flogged

    The best enjoyment in creating is had
    in anticipation

    The experienced love to signify their
    superiority

    Then hate came; but it did not last
    long

    There is no 'never,' no surely

    There are no gods, and whoever bows
    makes himself a slave

    There is nothing better than death, for
    it is peace

    They who will, can

    They praise their butchers more than
    their benefactors

    They keep an account in their heart and
    not in their head

    They get ahead of us, and yet—I would
    not change with them

    Thin-skinned, like all up-starts in
    authority

    Think of his wife, not with affection
    only, but with pride

    Those are not my real friends who tell
    me I am beautiful

    Those who will not listen must feel

    Those two little words 'wish' and
    'ought'

    Those whom we fear, says my uncle, we
    cannot love

    Thou canst say in words what we can
    only feel

    Though thou lose all thou deemest thy
    happiness

    Thought that the insane were possessed
    by demons

    Time is clever in the healing art

    Title must not be a bill of fare

    To pray is better than to bathe

    To govern the world one must have less
    need of sleep

    To know half is less endurable than to
    know nothing

    To her it was not a belief but a
    certainty

    To the child death is only slumber

    To expect gratitude is folly

    To the mines meant to be doomed to a
    slow, torturing death

    To whom the emotion of sorrow affords a
    mournful pleasure

    To whom fortune gives once, it gives by
    bushels

    To-morrow could give them nothing
    better than to-day

    To be happy, one must forget what
    cannot be altered

    Tone of patronizing instruction assumed
    by the better informed

    Trifling incident gains importance when
    undue emphasis is laid

    Trouble does not enhance beauty

    True host puts an end to the banquet

    Trustfulness is so dear, so essential
    to me

    Two griefs always belong to one joy

    Unjust to injure and rob the child for
    the benefit of the man

    Until neither knew which was the giver
    and which the receiver

    Unwise to try to make a man happy by
    force

    Use their physical helplessness as a
    defence

    Use words instead of swords, traps
    instead of lances

    Usually found the worst wine in the
    taverns with showy signs

    Vagabond knaves had already been put to
    the torture

    Very hard to imagine nothingness

    Virtues are punished in this world

    Voice of the senses, which drew them
    together, will soon be mute

    Wait, child!  What is life but waiting?

    Waiting is the merchant's wisdom

    Wakefulness may prolong the little term
    of life

    War is a perversion of nature

    We live for life, not for death

    We quarrel with no one more readily
    than with the benefactor

    We each and all are waiting

    We've talked a good deal of love with
    our eyes already

    Welcome a small evil when it barred the
    way to a greater one

    Were we not one and all born fools

    Wet inside, he can bear a great deal of
    moisture without

    What had formerly afforded me pleasure
    now seemed shallow

    What changes so quickly as joy and
    sorrow

    What are we all but puny children?

    What father does not find something to
    admire in his child

    Whatever a man would do himself, he
    thinks others are capable of

    When love has once taken firm hold of a
    man in riper years

    When a friend refuses to share in joys

    When men-children deem maids to be weak
    and unfit for true sport

    When hate and revenge speak, gratitude
    shrinks timidly

    When you want to strike me again,
    mother, please take off

    Whether the form of our benevolence
    does more good or mischief

    Whether man were the best or the worst
    of created beings

    Whether the historical romance is ever
    justifiable

    Who watches for his neighbour's faults
    has a hundred sharp eyes

    Who can point out the road that another
    will take

    Who can be freer than he who needs
    nothing

    Who only puts on his armor when he is
    threatened

    Who does not struggle ward, falls back

    Who gives great gifts, expects great
    gifts again

    Who do all they are able and enjoy as
    much as they can get

    Who can take pleasure in always seeing
    a gloomy face?

    Who can prop another's house when his
    own is falling

    Who can hope to win love that gives
    none

    Whoever condemns, feels himself
    superior

    Whoever will not hear, must feel

    Wide world between the purpose and the
    deed

    Wise men hold fast by the ever young
    present

    Without heeding the opinion of mortals

    Woman who might win the love of a
    highly-gifted soul (Pays for it)

    Woman's disapproving words were blown
    away by the wind

    Woman's hair is long, but her wit is
    short

    Women are indeed the rock ahead in this
    young fellow's life

    Wonder we leave for the most part to
    children and fools

    Words that sounded kindly, but with a
    cold, unloving heart

    Wrath has two eyes—one blind, the
    other keener than a falcon's

    Ye play with eternity as if it were but
    a passing moment

    Years are the foe of beauty

    You have a habit of only looking
    backwards

    Young Greek girls pass their sad
    childhood in close rooms

    Youth should be modest, and he was
    assertive

    Youth calls 'much,' what seems to older
    people 'little'

    Zeus pays no heed to lovers' oaths

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