Friedrich Schiller Quotes

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.
Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.
The history of the world is the world's court of justice.
The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
The key to education is the experience of beauty.
The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.
The strong man is strongest when alone.
The universe is one of God's thoughts.
The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.
The will of man is his happiness.
The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.
There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.
They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
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Friedrich Schiller
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Dramatist
BirthDate
10 November, 1759
DeathDate
09 May, 1805
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Germany
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