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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing [1729-1781] German

Rank: 101
Critic, Writer

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was a German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist and art critic, and one of the most outstanding representatives of the Enlightenment era.

Beauty, Friendship, Thankful

Quote	Tags	Rank
A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.	Thankful	101
For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.	Beauty	102
They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.		103
Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.		104
The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.	Friendship	105
A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.		106
Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.		107
It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.		108
For the will and not the gift makes the giver.		109
If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose.		110
Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.		111
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!		112
He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.		113
Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.		114
One can drink too much, but one never drinks enough.		115

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