457 Quotes by Friedrich Schiller

Futurity is impregnable to mortal ken: no prayer pierces through heaven’s adamantine walls. Whether the birds fly right or left, whatever be the aspect of the stars, the book of nature is a maze, dreams are a lie, and every sign a falsehood.

Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quick sand to virtue.

It is a ring that makes a marriage and it is from rings that chains are made.

Mazarin shed tears over this great loss, which Conde, who had no feeling for anything but glory, disregarded. “A single night in Paris,” said he, “gives birth to more men than this action has destroyed.

The world delights to tarnish shining names, And to trample the sublime in the dust.

Happy is he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

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

So my flowers of youth decay like those that float below.

At the threshold of life hope leads us in / Hope plays round the mirthful boy / Though the best of its charms may with youth begin / Yet for age it reserves its toy.