He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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

If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

For the will and not the gift makes the giver.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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

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

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