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Soon is the struggle past, and to the earth,
To the eternal sun, I render back
These atoms, joined in me for pain and pleasure.


Friedrich von Schiller

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FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
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...
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the gr...
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER The key to education is the experience of beauty.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man whe...
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally i...
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized worl...
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Every true genius is bound to be naive.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Art is the daughter of freedom.
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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