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Famous Friedrich Schiller Quotes
“Man is created free, and is free, even though born in chains.”
“Let no one despair, even though in the darkest night the last star of hope may disappear.”
“We, we live! ours are the hours, and the living have their claims.”
“The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart.”
“Love is only known by him who hopelessly persists in love.”
“Thus Arm in Arm with thee I dare defy my century into the lists.”
“O that it might remain eternally green, The beautiful time of youthful love.”
“The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.”
“In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims.”
“I am my own heaven and hell!”
“A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler's.”
“If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.”
“Great souls endure in silence.”
“One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.”
“Every man stamps his value on himself... man is made great or small by his own will.”
“He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.”
“To one, science is an exalted goddess; to another it is a cow which provides him with butter.”