Quotes from Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Many a crown shines spotless nowThat yet was deeply sullied in the winning.

Who reflects too much will accomplish little.

What one refuses in a minuteNo eternity will return.

Against stupidity the very godsThemselves contend in vain.

O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?

When wine goes in strange things come out.

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

This feat of Tell, the archer, will be toldWhile yonder mountains stand upon their base.By heaven! The apple's cleft right through the core.

The lively Shadow-World of Song.

When the wine goes in, strange things come out.

In thy breast are the stars of thy fate.

There are three lessons I would write,Three words as with a burning pen,In tracings of eternal lightUpon the hearts of men.

What is the short meaning of the long speech?

Pain is short, and joy is eternal.

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

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

I am better than my reputation.

World history is the world's court.

The richest monarch in the Christian world;The sun in my own dominions never sets.

You say it as you understand it.

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.