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Friedrich Schiller
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“Der brave Mann denkt an sich selbst zulezt, Vertrau auf Gott und rette den Bedrängten.”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) said by 1805 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Der kluge Mann baut vor.”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) said by 1805 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Der Starke ist am mächtigsten allein.”
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“Die Axt im Haus erspart den Zimmermann.”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) said by 1805 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Die Schlange sticht nicht ungereizt.”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) said by 1805 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Die schnellen Herrscher sind’s, die kurz regieren.”
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“Durch diese hohle Gasse muß er kommen, Es führt kein andrer Weg nach Küßnacht.”
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“Ein furchtbar wüthend Schreckniß ist Der Krieg, die Heerde schlägt er und den Hirten.”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) said by 1805 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ein rechter Schütze hilft sich selbst.”
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“Ertragen muß man, was der Himmel sendet, Unbilliges erträgt kein edles Herz.”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) said by 1805 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Es hebt die Freiheit siegend ihre Fahne.”
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“Es kann der Frömmste nicht im Frieden bleiben [or: leben], Wenn es dem bösen Nachbar nicht gefällt.”
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“Es lächelt der See, er ladet zum Bade, [...].”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) said by 1805 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Es lebt ein Gott zu strafen und zu rächen.”
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“Früh übt sich, was ein Meister werden will.”
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“Hohl ist der Boden unter den Tyrannen, Die Tage ihrer Herrschaft sind gezählt, Und bald ist ihre Spur nicht mehr zu finden.”
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“Ich bin der lezte meines Stamms.”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) said by 1805 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ich hab’ gethan, was ich nicht lassen konnte.”
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“Ihm gehört das Weite Was sein Pfeil erreicht, Das ist seine Beute, Was da kreucht und fleugt.”
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“Ihr wart in Straf’ gefallen, mußtet euch, Wie schwer sie war, der Buße schweigend fügen.”
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“[...] in gährend Drachengift hast du Die Milch der frommen Denkart mir verwandelt, [...]”
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“Mach deine Rechnung mit dem Himmel Vogt, Fort mußt du, deine Uhr ist abgelaufen.”
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“Mir fehlt der Arm, wenn mir die Waffe fehlt.”
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“Nein, eine Grenze hat Tyrannenmacht, Wenn der Gedrückte nirgends Recht kann finden, Wenn unerträglich wird die Last – greift er Hinauf getrosten Muthes in den Himmel, Und hohlt herunter seine ewgen Rechte, Die droben hangen unveräuserlich Und unzerbrechlich wie die Sterne selbst – […]”
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“Rache trägt keine Frucht! Sich selbst ist sie Die fürchterliche Nahrung.”
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“Rasch tritt der Tod den Menschen an, Es ist ihm keine Frist gegeben, Es stürzt ihn mitten in der Bahn, Es reißt ihn fort vom vollen Leben, [...]”
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“[...] Redlichkeit gedeiht in jedem Stande.”
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“Sie alle ziehen ihres Weges fort An ihr Geschäft – und Meines ist der Mord!”
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“[...] sieh den Hut dort auf der Stange. [or: Siehst du den Hut dort auf der Stange?]”
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“So ernst, mein Freund? Ich kenne dich nicht mehr.”
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“Steh zu deinem Volk, Es ist dein angebohrner Platz.”
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“Und auf den Schützen springt der Pfeil zurück.”
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“Vater schieß zu, ich fürcht’ mich nicht.”
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“Verbunden werden auch die Schwachen mächtig.”
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“Wann wird der Retter kommen diesem Lande?”
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“Was Hände bauten, können Hände stürzen.”
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“Wer Thränen ärnten will, muß Liebe säen.”
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“Wir sind Ein Volk, und einig wollen wir handeln.”
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“Wir wollen seyn ein einzig [or: einig] Volk von Brüdern, In keiner Noth uns trennen und Gefahr.”
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“Zum lezten Mittel, wenn kein andres mehr Verfangen will, ist ihm das Schwert gegeben.”
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“The reason passes, like the heart, through certain epochs and transitions, but its development is not so often portrayed. Men seem to have been satisfied with unfolding the passions in their extremes, their aberration, and their results, without considering how closely they are bound up with the intellectual constitution of the individual.”
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“The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the former happy resignation to ignorance begins to make way for a state of half-enlightenment, and few persons are willing to remain in the condition in which their birth has placed then.”
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“Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error, and even of folly, before we work our way up to the noble goal of tranquil wisdom.”
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“Truth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no detriment if a criminal denies them.”
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“I speak with the Eternal through the instrument of nature, — through the world's history: I read the soul of the artist in his Apollo.”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) said by 1805 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Each state of the human mind has some parable in the physical creation by which it is shadowed forth; nor is it only artists and poets, but even the most abstract thinkers that have drawn from this source. Lively activity we name fire; time is a stream that rolls on, sweeping all before it; eternity is a circle; a mystery is hid in midnight gloom, and truth dwells in the sun. Nay, I begin to believe that even the future destiny of the human race is prefigured in the dark oracular utterances of bodily creation.”
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“Even the strongest minds cannot, with impunity, defy the prejudices of the age.”
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“It is an unfailing maxim, that if policy enjoins an act of violence, its execution must never be entrusted to the violent.”
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“Fortune, which had never forsaken him in his lifetime, favored the King of Sweden even in his death, with the rare privilege of falling in the fullness of his glory and an untarnished fame. By a timely death, his protecting genius rescued him from the inevitable fate of man - that of forgetting moderation in the intoxication of success, and justice in the plenitude of power.”
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“All men without distinction, are allured by immediate advantages. Great minds alone are excited by distant good. So long as wisdom in it's projects, calculates upon wisdom, or relies upon its own strength, it forms none by chimerical schemes - and runs the risk of making itself the laughter of the world. But it is certain of success, and can reckon upon aid and admiration, when it finds a place in it's plans for barbarism, rapacity and superstition and can render the selifsh passions of mankind the executor of its' purposes.”
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