"Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to……" — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
"Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without pain, no joy without sorrow. O the folly of expecting lasting felicity in a vale of tears, or a paradise in a ruined world."
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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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