Friedrich Schiller Quotes
In a shipwreck, each swims safest by himself.
Love is only known by him who hopelessly persists in love.
The stars of thy fate lies in your bosom.
They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.
Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.
Freedom can occur only through education.
A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.
Our wisest acts, in times like these, are silence and submission.
Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
Pain is short, and joy is eternal.
By union even the weakest become mighty.
The mountain cannot frighten one who was born on it.
Great souls suffer in silence.
He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.
Appearance rules the world.
That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
War spares not even the infant in the cradle.
It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.
The iron chain and the silken cord are both equally bonds
No emperor has the power to dictate the heart of others.
Happy is he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
You saw his weakness, and he will never forgive you.
Song forbids victorious deeds to die.
Only through Beauty's morning gate, dost thou enter the land of Knowledge.
Live with your century; but do not be its creature.
O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?
