Johann Friedrich Von Schiller quotes Born: 11/10/1759 Died: 05/09/1805 Country: germany

• The brave person thinks of themselves last of all. (Johann Friedrich Von Schiller)
• There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny. (Johann Friedrich Von Schiller) [thing/chance/source]
• Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny. (Johann Friedrich Von Schiller) [human/reach]
• What shall he fear that does not fear death. (Johann Friedrich Von Schiller) [fear/fear/death]
• He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate. (Johann Friedrich Von Schiller) [master]
• This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil. (Johann Friedrich Von Schiller) [evil/more/evil]
• That which is so universal as death must be a benefit. (Johann Friedrich Von Schiller) [death/benefit]
• Keep true to the dreams of your youth. (Johann Friedrich Von Schiller) [dreams/youth]
• He that is over -- cautious will accomplish little. (Johann Friedrich Von Schiller) [willpower]
• Votes should be weighed not counted. (Johann Friedrich Von Schiller)
• 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 man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century? (Johann Friedrich Von Schiller) [age/state/customs/etiquette]
• Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change. (Johann Friedrich Von Schiller) [change]
• Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives. (Johann Friedrich Von Schiller) [life/fame/soul & body/dust]
• No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite. (Johann Friedrich Von Schiller) [artist/child/time]
• 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. (Johann Friedrich Von Schiller) [fortune/greatness/guilt]
• Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine. (Johann Friedrich Von Schiller) [time/moment]
• Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate. (Johann Friedrich Von Schiller) [wisdom]
• There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair. (Johann Friedrich Von Schiller) [cottage]
• Where there is much freedom there is much error. (Johann Friedrich Von Schiller)
• The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life. (Johann Friedrich Von Schiller) [genius/life]
• It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons. (Johann Friedrich Von Schiller) [blood]
• Historians are prophets with their face turned backward. (Johann Friedrich Von Schiller) [face]
• Freedom exists only with power. (Johann Friedrich Von Schiller) [power]
• The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever. (Johann Friedrich Von Schiller) [future/present/past]
• Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do. (Johann Friedrich Von Schiller) [teach]
• One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison. (Johann Friedrich Von Schiller) [hatred/joy]
• Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom. (Johann Friedrich Von Schiller) [beauty/form/influence]
• While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe. (Johann Friedrich Von Schiller) [god/love]
• The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh. (Johann Friedrich Von Schiller) [point]
• The voice of the majority is no proof of justice. (Johann Friedrich Von Schiller) [majority/]
• Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor. (Johann Friedrich Von Schiller) [nation]

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