Whatever lives, lives to die in sorrow. We engage our hearts, and grasp after the things of this world, only to undergo… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield! Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain. Exalted reason, Resplendent daughter of the… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Yet have I ever heard it said that spies and tale-bearers have done more mischief in this world than poisoned bowl or… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
If the art of gardening is at last to turn back from her extravagances and rest with her other sisters, it is,… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Far must thy researches go Wouldst thou learn the world to know; Thou must tempt the dark abyss Wouldst thou prove what… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Love guides the stars towards each other, the world plan endures only through love. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
As freely as the firmament embraces the world, so mercy must encircle friend and foe. The sun poursforth impartially his beams through… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
I am called The richest monarch in the Christian world; The sun in my dominion never sets. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
I speak with the Eternal through the instrument of nature, through the world's history: I read the soul of the artist in… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
No, no! I do nature injustice. She gave us inventive faculty, and set us naked, and helpless on the shore of this… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist? — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Ah, to that far distant strand Bridge there was not to convey, Not a bark was near at hand, Yet true love soon found… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image