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Famous Friedrich Schiller Quotes
“In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.”
“Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present.”
“The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows.”
“Seraphs share with thee Knowledge; but Art, O Man, is thine alone!”
“The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared by everybody.”
“An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.”
“Vast, colossal destiny, which raises man to fame, though it may also grind him to powder!”
“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.”
“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.”
“Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.”
“Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.”
“The strong man is strongest when alone.”
“Man is created free, and is free, even though born in chains.”
“Every man stamps his value on himself... man is made great or small by his own will.”
“Man is an imitative creature.”
“A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.”