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Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present


Friedrich von Schiller

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FRIEDRICH SCHILLER The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end...
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Great souls endure in silence.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER There are three lessons I would write-
Three words, as with a burning pen,
In tracings of...
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, ne...
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?
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