Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.

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

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

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

For the will and not the gift makes the giver.

The lion is ashamed, it's true, when he hunts with the fox.

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.

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

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

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

The superstition in which we grew up, Though we may recognize it, does not lose Its power over us.-Not all are free Who make mock of their chains.

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.

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

A blush is the sign which Nature hangs out to show where chastity and honor dwell.

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!