Homo Sum — Volume 01 by Georg Ebers
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which Donner translates literally:
"I am human, nothing that is human can I regard as alien to me." But Cicero and Seneca already used this line as a proverb, and in a sense which far transcends that which it would seem to convey in context with the passage whence it is taken; and as I coincide with them, I have transferred it to the title-page of this book with this meaning: "I am a man; and I feel that I am above all else a man." Leipzig, November 11, 1877. GEORG EBERS. HOMO SUM. CHAPTER I. Rocks-naked, hard, red-brown rocks all round; not a bush, not a blade, not a clinging moss such as elsewhere nature has lightly flung on the rocky surface of the heights, as if a breath of her creative life had softly touched the barren stone. Nothing but smooth granite, and above it a sky as bare of cloud as the rocks are of shrubs and herbs. And yet in every cave of the mountain wall there moves a human life; two |
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