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Friedrich von Schiller

Friedrich von Schiller

German poet and playwright

Lived from: 1759 - 1805

Category: Writers (Contemporary) | Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagGermany

Born: 10 november 1759 Died: 9 may 1805

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  • Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.
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  • Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
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  • One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
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  • One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.
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  • Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
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  • Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
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  • Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
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  • Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
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  • Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
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  • Speech is always bolder than action.
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  • That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
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  • The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
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  • The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.
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  • The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.
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  • The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.
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  • 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.
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  • The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
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  • The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.
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  • The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.
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  • The universe is one of God's thoughts.
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