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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.


— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing


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One can drink too much, but one never drinks enough.


— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing


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They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.


— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing


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Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!


— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing


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It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.


— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing


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1881. and Helen Zimmern. After visiting Latin School in Kamenz (from 1737 onwards) and the Fürstenschule St.

His plays and theoretical writings substantially influenced the development of German literature. He is widely considered by theatre historians to be the first dramaturg. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (22 January 1729 – 15 February 1781) was a German writer philosopher dramatist publicist and art critic and one of the most outstanding representatives of the Enlightenment era.

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