In today already walks tomorrow.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Live-now, Past and Present
Ever building to the clouds, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy, tottering column.
—Friedrich Schiller
Speech is always bolder than action.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Speech, Conversation
A childlike mind, in its simplicity, practices that science of good to which the wise may be blind.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Simplicity
He who reflects too much will achieve little.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Decisions
A deep meaning often lies in old customs.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Habits
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.
—Friedrich Schiller
Of all the possessions of this life, fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Fame
The strong man is strongest when alone.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Solitude, One liners
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?
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Defects, Conformity
Our safety is not in blindness, but in facing our danger.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Risk, Danger
The world is governed only by self-interest.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Selfishness
An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Confidence, Self-reliance
What the reason of the ant laboriously drags into a heap, the wind of accident will collect in one breath.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Fortune, Luck
The worm of conscience is the companion of the owl.—The light is shunned by sinners and evil spirits only.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Night
Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Power
Will it, and set to work briskly.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Will, Willpower, Will Power
The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Genius
It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.
—Friedrich Schiller
Time flies on restless pinions – constant never.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Time
The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Poverty
I have enjoyed the happiness of the world; I have lived and loved.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Love
Sorrow is brief but joy is endless
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Sorrow
He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Legacy, Success
The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Morals, Morality
As inclination changes; thus ebbs and flows the unstable tide of public judgment.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Popularity
He who considers too much will perform little.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Action
Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield!
Against stupidity the very gods
Themselves contend in vain. Exalted reason,
Resplendent daughter of the head divine,
Wise foundress of the system of the world,
Guide of the stars, who are thou then, if thou,
Bound to the tail of folly’s uncurb’d steed,
Must, vainly shrieking, with the drunken crowd,
Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Death
We often tremble at an empty terror, yet the false fancy brings a real misery.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Anticipation
To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Power
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