German - Critic | January 22, 1729 - February 15, 1781
A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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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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They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.
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Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
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For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.
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For the will and not the gift makes the giver.
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Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.
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He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.
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The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.
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Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!
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A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.
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