Dollars Quotes by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

To look forward to pleasure is also a pleasure.

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Mocking laughter from Hell.

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

The superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even after we understand it.

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Joy makes us giddy, dizzy.

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

The real beggar is indeed the true and only king.

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Well was it said by a man of sagacity that dancing was a sort of privileged and reputable folly, and that the best way…

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

We moderns do not believe in demigods, but our smallest hero we expect to feel and act as a demigod.

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Resist as much as thou wilt; heaven's ways are heaven's ways.

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

The gift of prayer is not always at our command.

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing