Quotes from Friedrich Schiller

Will it, and set to work briskly.

The strong man is strongest when alone.

Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.

If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.

Art is the right hand of Nature.

Modest humility is beauty's crown.

The key to education is the experience of beauty.

If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.

A noble soul spreads even over a face in which the architectonic beauty is wanting an irresistible grace, and a often even triumphs over the natural disfavor.

Day's lustrous eyes grow heavy in sweet death.

Gray hairs are death's blossoms.

Soon is the struggle past, and to the earth, To the eternal sun, I render back These atoms, joined in me for pain and pleasure.

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

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

No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who's made the master of his destiny.

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

What shall he fear that does not fear death.

From the moment fear begins I have ceased to fear.

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

When the wine goes in, strange things come out.

Forgiveness is the divinest of victories.

Forgiveness is the finding again of a lost possession.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.