457 Quotes by Friedrich Schiller

Don't let your heart depend on things That ornament life in a fleeting way! He who possesses, let him learn to lose, He who is fortunate, let him learn pain.

If you want to study yourself, look into the hearts of other people. If you want to study other people, look into your own heart.

The strong man is strongest when alone.

As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.

I am called The richest monarch in the Christian world; The sun in my dominion never sets.

The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.

Deep meaning lies often in childish play.

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

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