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Men Quotes by Friedrich Schiller
- Every man stamps his value on himself... man is made great or small by his own will.
- The will of man is his happiness.
- Have Love. Not love alone for one, but man as man they brother call; and scatter like the circling sun thy charities on all.
- Everlastingly chained to a single little fragment of the Whole, man himself develops into nothing but a fragment; everlastingly in his ear the monotonous sound…
- We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a…
- Man is never so authentically himself as when at play.
- 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…
- Man is an imitative creature.
- A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.
- We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a…
- Even weak men when united are powerful.
- I feel that I am a man of destiny.
- In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.
- The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.
- Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present.
- To be man's tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purposes of heaven.
- The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows.
- Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
- Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
- Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.
- The strong man is strongest when alone.
- All things must; man is the only creature that wills.
- On the mountains there is freedom! The world is perfect everywhere, save where man comes with his torment.
- Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.
- Man is created free, and is free, even though born in chains.
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