16 Quotes by Christian Friedrich Hebbel

We are as small as our joy (the sum of all ) and as big as our pain (the sum of all ) Somos tan pequeños como nuestra dicha y tan grandes como nuestro dolor

Most people are good only so long as they believe others to be so.

One lie does not cost you one truth, but the truth.

There are persons who always find a hair in their plate of soup for the simple reason that, when they sit down before it, they shake their heads until one falls in.

What a vast difference there is between the barbarism that precedes culture and the barbarism that follows it.

Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people’s excuses.

What you can become you are already.

That Man, who flees from truth, should have invented the mirror is the greatest of historical miracles.

In a good play, everyone is in the right.