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We have very positive sales results at Mercedes-Benz in March. Overall we are above the year-earlier numbers in the first quarter.


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JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain. [Ger., Mit der Dummheit kampfen Go...
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich v...
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Alas! when duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Deaf rage that hears no leader. [Ger., Dem tauben Grimm, der keinen Fuhrer hort.]
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER I feel that I am a man of destiny. [Ger., Ich fuhl 's das ich der Mann des Schicksals bin.]
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The zeal of friends it is that razes me, And not the hate of enemies. [Ger., Der Freunde Eifer...
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The Moor has done his work, the Moor may go. [Ger., Der Mohr hat seine Arbeit gethan, der Mohr kan...
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart.
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The dream is short, repentance long. [Ger., Der Wahn ist kurtz, die Reu ist lang.]
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs. [Ger., Im engen Krei...
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER For every event is a judgment of God. [Ger., Denn aller Ausgang ist ein Gottesurheil.]
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER We are one people and will act as one. [Ger., Wir sind ein Volk, und einig wollen wir handeln.]
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Be united--united--united. [Ger., Seid einig--einig--einig.]
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Stern is the visage of necessity. [Ger., Ernst ist der Anblick der Nothwendigkeit.]
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the ...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would ...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found; And 'tis joy that moves the p...
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for de...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfe...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday pen...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered a...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of the...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men n...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it ...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innoc...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG In each of us there is a little of all of us.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG