"Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.…" — Friedrich Schiller
"Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him."
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218 Quotes by Friedrich Schiller
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- Great souls endure in silence.
- Where there is much freedom there is much error.
- Freedom exists only with power.
- One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.
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- Every man stamps his value on himself... man is made great or small by his own will.
- If you would attain to your highest, go look upon a flower;what the flower does willessly, that do willingly.
- Dare to be wrong and to dream.
- Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
- The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.
- Honesty prospers in every condition of life.