But how many moments are already past! Ah! who thinks of those that are past? — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
Who cannot resolve upon a moment's notice To live his own life, he forever lives A slave to others. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
How can such deep-imprinted images sleep in us at times, till a word, a sound, awake them? — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
The superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even after we understand it. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We moderns do not believe in demigods, but our smallest hero we expect to feel and act as a demigod. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
Resist as much as thou wilt; heaven's ways are heaven's ways. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
