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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Friedrich Schiller
Heart, Power, Emperor

The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.

Friedrich Schiller
Life, Lamps, Genius
Friedrich Schiller, Henry George Bohn (1849). “Works”, p.178

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

Friedrich Schiller
Safety, Giving, Advice

What is the short meaning of the long speech?

Friedrich Schiller
Long, Speech, Long Speeches
"Wallenstein". Book by Friedrich Schiller translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Part I, Act I, Scene II), 1798.

Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.

Friedrich Schiller
Inspirational, Disappointment, Fear

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Friedrich Schiller
Work, Literature, Willpower

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

Friedrich Schiller
Inspirational, Peace, War

It is not the mere station of life that stamps the value on us, but the manner in which we act our part.

Friedrich Schiller
Stamps, Mere, Stations

In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.

Friedrich Schiller
People, Machines, Literature

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

Friedrich Schiller
Hate, Heart, Men
Friedrich Schiller (1884). “Works”

Virtue is no empty echo.

Friedrich Schiller
Echoes, Virtue, Empty
"The Word of the Faithful" by Friedrich Schiller, st. 3, 1797.

The mountain cannot frighten one who was born on it.

Friedrich Schiller
Mountain, Born
"William Tell". Play by Friedrich Schiller (Act III, Scene I), 1804.

The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared by everybody.

Friedrich Schiller
Powerful, Men, He Man
Friedrich Schiller (2015). “The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.657, 谷月社

It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.

Friedrich Schiller
Wise, Long, Advice

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

Friedrich Schiller
Intelligence, Genius, Literature
"Schiller's Poems‎". Book by Friedrich Schiller, p. 200, 1905.

Love is only known by him who hopelessly persists in love.

Friedrich Schiller
Life, Love Is, Persist
Friedrich Schiller, Henry George Bohn, Alexander James William Morrison (1872). “The Works of Frederick Schiller: Historical dramas, etc”, p.57

There is a nobility in the world of manners.

Friedrich Schiller
World, Manners, Nobility

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

Friedrich Schiller
Beauty, Wise, Truth
"Don Carlos". Play by Friedrich Schiller, IV. 21. 186, 1783-1787.

It may here be justly said, that genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.

Friedrich Schiller
School, Adversity, Challenges
"The Philosophical and Aesthetic Letters and Essays".

I am my own heaven and hell!

Friedrich Schiller
Self Esteem, Self Respect, Heaven
Robert David MacDonald, Friedrich Schiller (2005). “Schiller: Volume One”, p.140, Oberon Books

Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.

Friedrich Schiller
Virtue, Command, Beggar
Friedrich Schiller (2015). “Love and Intrigue: Top Classic of German”, p.38, 谷月社

When the wine goes in, strange things come out.

Friedrich Schiller
Drinking, Food, Wine
Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Complete works. Ed. with careful rev. and new tr., by C.J. Hempel”, p.529

Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.

Friedrich Schiller
People, Great People, Persecution

An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.

Friedrich Schiller
Home, Hiring, Carpenter

Man is never so authentically himself as when at play.

Friedrich Schiller
Education, School, Men

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