Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Quotes
Who cannot resolve upon a moment's notice To live his own life, he forever lives A slave to others.
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim. Nathan the Wise. Translated by William Taylor, Cassell & Company, 1886.
Johnson had a white mistress who accompanied him visibly at a time when Blacks were lynched for dating white women in many parts of the country. He was criticized heavily by whites for going with a white woman and many Blacks for the same.
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was a German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist and art critic, and an outstanding representative of the Enlightenment era. His plays and theoretical writings substantially influenced the development of German literature. He is widely considered by theatre historians to be the first dramaturg in his role at Abel Seyler's Hamburg National Theatre.
