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Friedrich Schiller

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• “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.”

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• “The Greeks put us to shame not only by their simplicity, which is foreign to our age; they are at the same time our rivals, nay, frequently our models, in those very points of superiority from which we seek comfort when regretting the unnatural character of our manners. We see that remarkable people uniting at once fullness of form and fullness of substance, both philosophising and creating, both tender and energetic, uniting a youthful fancy to the virility of reason in a glorious humanity.”

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• “Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.”

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• “He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.”

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• “Life is earnest, art is gay.”

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• “Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.”

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• “What is the short meaning of the long speech?”

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• “Der Krieg ernährt den Krieg.”

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• “My son, there's nothing insignificant, Nothing! But yet in every earthly thing First and most principal is place and time.”

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• “The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths, — all these have vanished; They live no longer in the faith of reason.”

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  Also quoted by: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• “In thy breast are the stars of thy fate.”

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• “You say it as you understand it.”

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• “When the wine goes in, strange things come out.”

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• “The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate.”

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• “The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man.”

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• “The empire of Saturnus is gone by; Lord of the secret birth of things is he; Within the lap of earth, and in the depths Of the imagination dominates; And his are all things that eschew the light. The time is o'er of brooding and contrivance, For Jupiter, the lustrous, lordeth now, And the dark work, complete of preparation, He draws by force into the realm of light. Now must we hasten on to action, ere The scheme, and most auspicious positure Parts o'er my head, and takes once more its flight, For the heavens journey still, and adjourn not.”

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• “Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse.”

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• “I have only an office here, and no opinion.”

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• “Virtue has her heroes too As well as Fame and Fortune.”

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• “Many a crown shines spotless now That yet was deeply sullied in the winning.”

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• “The world is narrow, broad the mind— Thoughts dwell easily side by side Things collide violently in space”

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• “There's no such thing as chance; And what to us seems merest accident Springs from the deepest source of destiny.”

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• “What is life without the radiance of love?”

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• “Time is man's angel.”

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• “Man kann den Menschen nicht verwehren, Zu denken, was sie wollen.”

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• “I am better than my reputation.”

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• “Was man nicht aufgibt, hat man nie verloren.”

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• “Das Leben ist Nur ein Moment, der Tod ist auch nur einer!”

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• “Who dares impede my progress? Who presume The spirit to control which guideth me? Still must the arrow wing its destined flight! Where danger is, there must Johanna be; Nor now, nor here, am I foredoomed to fall; Our monarch's royal brow I first must see Invested with the round of sovereignty. No hostile power can rob me of my life, Till I've accomplished the commands of God.”

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• “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 art thou then if thou, Bound to the tail of folly's uncurbed steed, Must, vainly shrieking with the drunken crowd, Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss. Accursed, who striveth after noble ends, And with deliberate wisdom forms his plans! To the fool-king belongs the world.”

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• “Pain is short, and joy is eternal.”

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• “The strong man is strongest when alone.”

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• “Wir wollen sein ein einzig Volk von Brüdern, in keiner Not uns trennen und Gefahr. Wir wollen frei sein, wie die Väter waren, eher den Tod, als in der Knechtschaft leben. Wir wollen trauen auf den höchsten Gott und uns nicht fürchten vor der Macht der Menschen.”

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• “The mountain cannot frighten one who was born on it.”

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  Recorded in: Act III, sc. i, in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 15th ed. (1980), p. 414

• “Wer gar zu viel bedenkt wird wenig leisten.”

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  Recorded in: Act III, sc. i, in A. W. Verity, ed., Hamlet (Cambridge, 1929), introduction, p. xxxviii

• “You saw his weakness, and he will never forgive you.”

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  Recorded in: Act III, sc. i, in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 15th ed. (1980), p. 413

• “: This feat of Tell, the archer, will be told While yonder mountains stand upon their base. : By heaven! The apple's cleft right through the core.”

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• “No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, Who's made the master of his destiny.”

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• “What's old collapses, times change, And new life blossoms in the ruins.”

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  Recorded in: Act IV, sc. ii, in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 15th ed. (1980), p. 414

• “A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.”

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• “The most pious man can't stay in peace If it doesn't please his evil neighbor.”

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  Recorded in: Act IV, sc. iii, in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 15th ed. (1980), p. 414

• “[...] allzustraff gespannt zerspringt der Bogen.”

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• “An’s Vaterland, an’s theure, schließ dich an, Das halte fest mit deinem ganzen Herzen. Hier sind die starken Wurzeln deiner Kraft, Dort in der fremden Welt stehst du allein, Ein schwankes Rohr, das jeder Sturm zerknickt.”

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• “Auf dieser Bank von Stein will ich mich setzen.”

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• “Da [or: Es] ras’t der See und will sein Opfer haben.”

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• “Das Alte stürzt, es ändert sich die Zeit, Und neues Leben blüht aus den Ruinen.”

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• “Das ist [or: war] Tells Geschoß.”

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• “[...] dem Muthigen hilft Gott!”

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• “Dem Schwachen ist sein Stachel auch gegeben.”

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• “Denn herrenlos ist auch der Freiste nicht. Ein Oberhaupt muß seyn, ein höchster Richter, Wo man das Recht mag schöpfen in dem Streit.”

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