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Inspirational Quotes by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.
- Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.
- 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
- Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.
- To look forward to pleasure is also a pleasure.
- The searcher's eye Not seldom finds more than he wished to find.
- Nature meant woman to be her masterpiece.
- Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which the intention is so clearly evident.
- Borrowing is not much better than begging.
- The real beggar is indeed the true and only king.
- For the will and not the gift makes the giver.
- Joy makes us giddy, dizzy.
- Suspicion follows close on mistrust.
- 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.
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