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

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

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

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

Georg Ebers

Georg Ebers

Georg Ebers

Born: March 1, 1837

Died: August 7, 1898 (aged 61)

Bio: Georg Moritz Ebers, German Egyptologist and novelist, discovered the Egyptian medical papyrus, of ca. 1550 BCE, named for him at Luxor in the winter of 1873 74.

Known for:

An Egyptian Princess (1864)
A thorny path (Per aspera)
Homo sum (1880)
The bride of the Nile (1886)
The burgomaster's wife (1882)

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