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Quotes by Friedrich Schiller

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

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

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

Nothing leads to good that is not natural.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

The strong man is strongest when alone.

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.