Quotes by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished...

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Mocking laughter from Hell.

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Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.

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One can drink too much, but one never drinks enough.

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Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from...

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They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.

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Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.

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It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but...

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If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none...

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He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

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For the will and not the gift makes the giver.

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For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.

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