“Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“Great souls suffer in silence.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“Honesty prospers in every condition of life.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“The key to education is the experience of beauty.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“Appearance rules the world.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“The strong man is strongest when alone.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“Every true genius is bound to be naive.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“Mankind is made great or little by its own will.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“Freedom can occur only through education.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men’s opinions of us, forms our true honor.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“The history of the world is the world’s court of justice.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“He who considers too much will perform little.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“Keep true to the dreams of your youth.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“Live with your century; but do not be its creature.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“The will of man is his happiness.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“I am better than my reputation.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“Nothing leads to good that is not natural.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“Votes should be weighed not counted.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“To save all we must risk all.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“All things must; man is the only creature that wills.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“Will it, and set to work briskly.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“The universe is one of God’s thoughts.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“Art is the daughter of freedom.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.”
― Friedrich Schiller
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