Friedrich Schiller Quotes

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• When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist

  Friedrich Schiller

  Happiness, Thinking, Not Happy

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• Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Leadership, Patience, Learning

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• The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Past, Forever, Stills

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• One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Hate, Hatred, Joy

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• Dare to be wrong and to dream.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Inspirational, Dream, Dare

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• The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Freedom, Voice, Libertarian Party

  "A Dictionary of Thoughts : Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors, Both Ancient and Modern" edited by Tryon Edwards, (p. 324), 1891.

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• Great souls endure in silence.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Silence, Soul, Endure

  Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Complete works. Ed. with careful rev. and new tr., by C.J. Hempel”, p.295

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• Forgiveness is the divinest of victories.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Forgiveness, Victory

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• Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Friendship, Feelings, Friends Show

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• There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Spiritual, Spring, Destiny

  Early Dramas The Death of Wallenstein Act II, Scene III

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• Against stupidity, God Himself fights in vain.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Fighting, Stupidity, Vain

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• It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he cannot retain.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Giving Up, Men, Dignity

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• Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

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  Time, Focus And Concentration, Loser

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• Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Happiness, You Make Me Happy, Endurance

  Friedrich Schiller (2015). “Aesthetical Essays of Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.113, 谷月社

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• Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?

  Friedrich Schiller

  Sleep, Thinking, Lions

  "The Conspiracy of Fiesco" by Friedrich Schiller, Act I, sc. xviii, 1783.

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• He who considers too much will perform little.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Littles, Too Much, Action

  "Wilhelm Tell", III. 1, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 184-87, 1922.

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• Far must thy researches go
  Wouldst thou learn the world to know;
  Thou must tempt the dark abyss
  Wouldst thou prove what Being is;
  Naught but firmness gains the prize,
  Naught but fullness makes us wise,
  Buried deep truth e'er lies.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Wise, Lying, Knowledge

  Friedrich Schiller, “The Proverbs Of Confucius”

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• It 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.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Greatness, Guilt, Criminals

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• A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Inspirational, Peace, War

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• It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Majority, Doe, Literature

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• If you wish to know yourself observe how others act.
  If you wish to understand others look into your own heart.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Heart, Knowledge, Wish

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• Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Inspiring, Graduation, Dream

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• Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Truth, Deception, Midst

  Friedrich Schiller, Elizabeth Mary Wilkinson, Leonard Ashley Willoughby (1967). “Schiller: Aesthetic education”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I have enjoyed the happiness of the world; I have loved.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Love, Romantic, World

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• What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping soul.

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  Hope, Voice, Soul

  "Hope". Poem by Friedrich Schiller, 1797.

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