Whatever lives, lives to die in sorrow. We engage our hearts, and grasp after the things of this world, only to undergo the pang of losing them.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLERIt is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.
More Friedrich Schiller Quotes
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There is more to life than just existing and having a pleasant time.
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In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims.
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Fear of death is worse than dying.
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Gray hairs are death’s blossoms.
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The gentlest man cannot live in peace if it does not please his wicked neighbor.
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You have to go the rounds from individual to individual in order to gather the totality of the race.
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When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist.
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One can give advice comfortably from a safe port.
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Individual character is in the right that is in strict consistence with itself. Self-contradiction is the only wrong.
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Have Love. Not love alone for one, but man as man they brother call; and scatter like the circling sun thy charities on all.
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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
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Fate hath no voice but the heart’s impulse.
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Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds.
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Virtue is no empty echo.
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Dare to be wrong and to dream.
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It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.
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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.
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Emulation is a noble and just passion, full of appreciation.
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Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column.
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Even the weak become strong when they are united.
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The happy man does not notice the flight of time.
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There is no solitude in nature.
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Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.
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Keep true to the dreams of your youth.
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Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to it alone it speaks even in the artificial, in the man engaged in culture.
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Will it, and set to work briskly.
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