Top 100 Friedrich Schiller Quotes
#2. An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.
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#3. Our sex is called timid and weak; believe it no more! We tremble at a spider, but the black monster, corruption, we hug to our arms in sport!
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#7. The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows.
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#8. You have to go the rounds from individual to individual in order to gather the totality of the race.
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#9. The concrete life of the individual is destroyed in order that the abstract idea of the whole may drag out its sorry existence.
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#10. Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
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#11. To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness.
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#12. When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist
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#15. Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.
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#18. 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.
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#21. A childlike mind in its simplicity practises that science of good to which the wise may be blind.
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#22. Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.
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#30. What's old collapses, times change, and new life blossoms in the ruins.
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#32. Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
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#35. Futurity is impregnable to mortal ken: no prayer pierces through heaven's adamantine walls. Whether the birds fly right or left, whatever be the aspect of the stars, the book of nature is a maze, dreams are a lie, and every sign a falsehood.
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#36. Yet have I ever heard it said that spies and tale-bearers have done more mischief in this world than poisoned bowl or the assassin's dagger.
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#37. So it has reached this pass? Obedience and fear take flight together?
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#40. A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
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#41. It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he cannot retain.
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#47. Ah, to that far distant strand
Bridge there was not to convey,
Not a bark was near at hand,
Yet true love soon found the way.
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#49. While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.
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#50. Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
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#51. O tender yearning, sweet hoping!
The golden time of first love!
The eye sees the open heaven,
The heart is intoxicated with bliss;
O that the beautiful time of young love
Could remain green forever.
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#54. The dignity of man into your hands is given;
Oh, keep it well, with you it sinks or lifts itself to heaven.
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#59. Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told me in my childhood than any truth that is taught in life.
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#62. The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly below even the poet.
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#64. Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column.
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#65. This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.
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#66. Every man stamps his value on himself ... man is made great or small by his own will.
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#67. I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery.
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#71. The man of courage thinks not of himself. Help the oppressed and put thy trust in God.
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#72. If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.
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#73. Don't let your heart depend on things That ornament life in a fleeting way! He who possesses, let him learn to lose, He who is fortunate, let him learn pain.
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#74. Whatever lives, lives to die in sorrow. We engage our hearts, and grasp after the things of this world, only to undergo the pang of losing them.
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#75. Let not thy heart cling to the things which for so short a time deck out thy life. Let him who has, learn to lose, and him who is happy, familiarise himself with what may give pain.
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#78. The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.
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#80. Our age is enlightened ... How is it, then, that we still remain barbarians?
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#82. There are occasions when the general belief of the people, even though it be groundless, works its effect as sure as truth itself.
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#83. It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.
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#86. I speak with the Eternal through the instrument of nature, through the world's history: I read the soul of the artist in his Apollo.
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#87. It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.
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#88. Have Love. Not love alone for one, but man as man they brother call; and scatter like the circling sun thy charities on all.
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#95. No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who's made the master of his destiny.
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#97. 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.
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#98. He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
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