457 Quotes by Friedrich Schiller

Father Zeus, who reign'st o'er all that in ether's mansions dwell, let a sign from thee now fall that thou lov'st this offering well!

Zeus, who gives to terror birth, who the dreaded Aegis waves.

Take the world! Zeus exclaimed from his throne in the skies to the children of man--"take the world I now give; it shall ever remain as your heirloom and prize, so divide it as brothers, and happily live.

There is no room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.

As an eagle whose plumes to the sun are unfurled, / Swept his hope round the heaven on its limitless wings.

Was it always as now? This race I truly can't fathom. / Nothing is young but old age; youth, alas! only is old.

Youth's gay springtime scarcely knowing / Went I forth the world to roam-- / And the dance of youth, the glowing, / Left I in my father's home,