Friedrich Schiller Quotes
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Don't let your heart depend on thingsThat 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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The lemonade is weak, like your soul.
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A moment lived in paradiseIs not atoned for too dearly by death.
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Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
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Appearance rules the world.
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Great souls suffer in silence.
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The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.
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Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
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The mountain cannot frighten one who was born on it.
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A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
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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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Grosse Seelen dulden still.
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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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Even the Strongest Minds Cannot, with impunity, defy the prejudices of the age.
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Appearance should never attain reality,And if nature conquers, then must art retire.
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To the Gods we ne'er can renderPraise for every good they grant;Let us, with devotion tender,Minister to grief and want.Quenched be hate and wrath forever,Pardoned be our mortal foe- May our tears upbraid him never,No repentance bring him low!
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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.
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Wir wollen sein ein einzig Volk von Brüdern, in keiner Not uns trennen und Gefahr. Wir wollen frei sein, wie die Väter waren, eher den Tod, als in der Knechtschaft leben. Wir wollen trauen auf den höchsten Gott und uns nicht fürchten vor der Macht der Menschen.
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Truth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no detriment if a criminal denies them.
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A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.
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There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.
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It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.
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My son, there's nothing insignificant,Nothing! But yet in every earthly thingFirst and most principal is place and time.