"It's easier to swoon in pious dreams Than…" — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
"It's easier to swoon in pious dreams Than do good actions."
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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37 Quotes by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we…
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Yesterday I lived, today I suffer, tomorrow I die; but I still think fondly, today and tomorrow, of yesterday.
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He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.
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The lion is ashamed, it's true, when he hunts with the fox.
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Why should not every individual man have existed more than once upon this world? Why should I not come back…
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Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.
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When the heart dares to speak, it needs no preparation.
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A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes
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Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm…
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The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship
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It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he…
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Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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