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

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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was a prominent German writer and philosopher, known for his contributions to the Enlightenment. He is celebrated for his plays, poetry, and literary criticism, which often explored moral and philosophical themes. more

“The most agreeable of all companions is a simple, frank man, without any high pretensions to an oppressive greatness; one who loves life, and understands the use of it; obliging alike at all hours; above all, of a golden temper and steadfast as an anchor. For such an one we gladly exchange the greatest genius, the most brilliant wit, the profoundest thinker.”

Men Use Hours Simple Greatness Genius Brilliant Wit Golden Love Life Companion Thinker Temper Frank Anchors Pretension Steadfast

Author:Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

“As the stag which the huntsman has hit flies through bush and brake, over stock and stone, thereby exhausting his strength but not expelling the deadly bullet from his body; so does experience show that they who have troubled consciences run from place to place, but carry with them wherever they go their dangerous wounds.”

Doe Shows Body Running Dangerous Conscience Stones Wounds Bullets Exhausting Brake Stags

Author:Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

“With a clear sky, a bright sun, and a gentle breeze, you will have friends in plenty; but let fortune frown, and the firmament be overcast, and then your friends will prove like the strings of the lute, of which you will tighten ten before you find one that will bear the stretch and keep the pitch.”

Friendship Sun Clear Sky Bears Ten Prove Fortune Plenty Gentle Strings Breeze Firmament Overcast Clear Skies

Author:Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

“I know not whether there exists such a thing as a coin stamped with a pair of pinions; but I wish this were the device which monarchs put upon their dollars and ducats, to show that riches make to themselves wings, and fly away.”

Knows Shows Wish Gold Dollars Wings Riches Pairs Devices Coins Monarchs Fly Away

Author:Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

“How can such deep-imprinted images sleep in us at times, till a word, a sound, awake them?”

Sound Sleep Awake

Author: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 to be convinced of this was to close the ears and judge of it by the eyes alone.”

Men Way Wells Said Eye Judging Ears Dancing Convinced Best Way Folly Privileged Sagacity

Author:Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

“Where wildness and disorder are visible in the dance, there Satan, death and all kinds of mischief are likewise upon the floor. For this reason I could wish that the dance of death were painted on the walls of all ball-rooms in order to warn the dancers, not by the levity of their deportment, to provoke the God of righteousness to visit them with a sudden judgment.”

Kind Reason Order Wish Rooms Wall Judgment Balls Dancing All Kinds Satan Visible Dancer Righteousness Disorder Provoking Mischief Wildness Levity

Author:Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

“It is not I who die, when I die, but my sin and misery.”

Death Dies Sin Misery

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

Way Heaven Destiny

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