457 Quotes by Friedrich Schiller

The gentlest man cannot live in peace if it does not please his wicked neighbor.

Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.

Live with your century; but do not be its creature.

If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.

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.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows.

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 are thou then, if thou, Bound to the tail of folly's uncurb'd steed, Must, vainly shrieking, with the drunken crowd, Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss.