457 Quotes by Friedrich Schiller

Even in a righteous cause force is a fearful thing; God only helps when men can help no more.

By love are blest the gods on high, — / Frail man becomes a deity / When love to him is given; / 'Tis love that makes the heavens shine / With hues more radiant, more divine, / And turns dull earth to heaven!

A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soap boiler's.

Do I believe sayest thou Genius what the masters of wisdom would teach me.

We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship.

Betrayer, what! thy soul relentless closing / To grief the woman shame no art can heal / To that small life beneath my heart reposing!

This ring for me is far most dear of all this isle within it knows

I've found great lord thy ring of gold, thy fortune truly knows no bounds.

Shyly in the mountain-cleft / Was the Troglodyte concealed; / And the roving Nomad left, / Desert lying, each broad field.