Quotes from Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Even the weak become strong when they are united.

The strong man is strongest when alone.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

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.

Nothing leads to good that is not natural.

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

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

It is wise to disclose what cannot be concealed.

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.

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

The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.

If you want to know yourself,Just look how others do it;If you want to understand others,Look into your own heart.

Deep meaning lies often in childish play.

Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.

O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.

The mountain cannot frighten one who was born on it.

Jealousy is the great exaggerator.

There's no such thing as chance;And what to us seems merest accidentSprings from the deepest source of destiny.

Joy, thou spark from Heav'n immortal,Daughter of Elysium!Drunk with fire, toward Heaven advancingGoddess, to thy shrine we come.Thy sweet magic brings togetherWhat stern Custom spreads afar;All men become brothersWhere thy happy wing-beats are.

Great souls suffer in silence.