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Famous Friedrich Schiller Quotes
“Sorrows must die with the joys they outnumber.”
“Like a dart the present glances, Silent stands the past sublime.”
“Time is a blooming field: nature is ever teeming with life: and all is seed, and all is fruit.”
“Truth is more than a dream and a song.”
“Wine invents nothing; it only tattles.”
“In the ardor of pursuit men soon forget the goal from which they start.”
“Only the soldier is a free man, because he can look death in the face.”
“He who never ventures beyond actuality will never win the prize of truth.”
“Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds.”
“The gentlest man cannot live in peace if it does not please his wicked neighbor.”
“Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.”
“Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.”
“Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.”
“There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.”
“Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.”
“Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.”
“Art is the daughter of freedom.”
“Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.”
“Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.”
“It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.”
“Great souls suffer in silence.”