If the advice of a fool for once happens to be good, it requires a wise man to carry it out.
Gotthold Ephraim LessingLet us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.
Gotthold Ephraim LessingWhy should not every individual man have existed more than once upon this world? Why should I not come back as often as I am capable of acquiring fresh knowledge? Is this hypothesis so laughable merely because it is the oldest? Because the human understanding, before the sophistries of the schools had dissipated and debilitated it, lighted upon it at once?
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing