457 Quotes by Friedrich Schiller

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

I am better than my reputation.

We shall be free, just as our fathers were.

Secrecy is for the happy, – misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly.

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men’s opinions of us, forms our true honor.

O the eye’s light is a noble gift of Heaven! All beings live from light, each fair created thing; the very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light.

No, no! I do nature injustice. She gave us inventive faculty, and set us naked, and helpless on the shore of this great ocean, – the world; swim those who can, the heavy may go to the bottom.

Modest humility is beauty’s crown.

Yet have I ever heard it said that spies and tale-bearers have done more mischief in this world than poisoned bowl or the assassin’s dagger.