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The gentlest man cannot live in peace if it does not please his wicked neighbor.

The gentlest man cannot live in peace if it does not please his wicked neighbor.

Friedrich Schiller
Men, Wicked, Doe

Stubbornness is not firmness.

Friedrich Schiller
Stubbornness, Firmness

Fate always wins, for our own heart within us Imperiously furthers its designs.

Friedrich Schiller
Heart, Fate, Winning
F. Lamport, Friedrich Schiller (1979). “The Robbers and Wallenstein”, p.474, Penguin UK

Man is an imitative creature.

Friedrich Schiller
Men, Creatures
Friedrich Schiller (1827). “Wallenstein: A Dramatic Poem”, p.105

Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.

Friedrich Schiller
Freedom, Differences, Forbidden
Wallenstein's Camp sc. 6 (1798)

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

Friedrich Schiller
Vaccines, Literature, World

Innocence has a friend in heaven.

Friedrich Schiller
Heaven, Innocence
Friedrich Schiller (1954). “William Tell”, Barron's Educational Series

False fancy brings real misery.

Friedrich Schiller
Real, Fancy, Misery

If you would attain to your highest, go look upon a flower;what the flower does willessly, that do willingly.

Friedrich Schiller
Flower, Doe, Looks

The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.

Friedrich Schiller
Simple, Men, Law

It is only through the morning gate of the beautiful that you can penetrate into the realm of knowledge. That which we feel here as beauty we shall one day know as truth.

Friedrich Schiller
Beauty, Beautiful, Morning

It is play and only play that makes man complete.

Friedrich Schiller
Men, Play

Great souls suffer in silence.

Friedrich Schiller
Silence, Soul, Suffering
Friedrich Schiller, Charles Herbert Cottrell (1844). “Don Carlos ... Translated ... by C. H. Cottrell”, p.32

The happy man does not notice the flight of time.

Friedrich Schiller
Men, Doe, Flight

Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist?

Friedrich Schiller
Artist, April, Should

Many a crown shines spotless now that yet was deeply sullied in the winning.

Friedrich Schiller
Winning, Shining, Crowns
Friedrich Schiller (1871). “The Works of Frederick Schiller: Historical and Dramatic”, p.318

Freedom exists only with power.

Friedrich Schiller
Freedom, Power

Fate hath no voice but the heart's impulse.

Friedrich Schiller
Heart, Fate, Voice
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Friedrich Schiller (1847). “The Piccolomini; or, The first part of Wallenstein. Tr. from Schiller. The death of Wallenstein”, p.86

In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims.

Friedrich Schiller
Circles, Mind, Vision

The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly below even the poet.

Friedrich Schiller
Art, Design, Execution

What's old collapses, times change, And new life blossoms in the ruins.

Friedrich Schiller
Inspirational, Courage, New Life
"William Tell". Play by Friedrich Schiller (Act IV, Scene II), 1804.

There are occasions when the general belief of the people, even though it be groundless, works its effect as sure as truth itself.

Friedrich Schiller
People, Politics, Belief

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

Friedrich Schiller
Life, Home, Secret Love

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

Friedrich Schiller
Mistake, Struggle, Errors
Friedrich Schiller (2012). “On the Aesthetic Education of Man”, p.49, Courier Corporation

Dear is my friend--yet from my foe, as from my friend, comes good: My friend shows what I can do, and my foe what I should.

Friedrich Schiller
Friends, Should, Dear
Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Schiller's Complete Works”, p.142

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