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Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotism at solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in

Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotism at solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation. Egotism sows for gratitude, love for the ungrateful. Love gives, egotism lends; and love does this before the throne of judicial truth, indifferent if for the enjoyment of the following moment, or with the view to a martyr's crown--indifferent whether the reward is in this life or in the next.

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Gratitude, Love Is, Axes
Friedrich Schiller (2017). “Philosophical Letters of Friedrich Schiller”, p.20, Litres

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

Friedrich Schiller
Inspirational, Time, Commitment
"Wallenstein". Book by Friedrich Schiller translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Prologue), 1798.

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

Friedrich Schiller
Fate, Destiny, Hands

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

Friedrich Schiller
Inspirational, Beauty, Grace
Friedrich Schiller (2013). “On The Aesthetic Education Of Man”, Lulu.com

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

Friedrich Schiller
Stupid, People, Brave
"Wallenstein's Lager", XI. 347 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 758), 1922.

Our safety is not in blindness, but in facing our dangers.

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Safety, Danger, Realism
Friedrich Schiller (2015). “Aesthetical Essays of Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.114, 谷月社

The empire of Saturnus is gone by; Lord of the secret birth of things is he; Within the lap of earth, and in the depths Of the imagination dominates; And his are all things that eschew the light. The time is o'er of brooding and contrivance, For Jupiter, the lustrous, lordeth now, And the dark work, complete of preparation, He draws by force into the realm of light. Now must we hasten on to action, ere The scheme, and most auspicious positure Parts o'er my head, and takes once more its flight, For the heavens journey still, and adjourn not.

Friedrich Schiller
Dark, Journey, Light
"Wallenstein" by Friedrich Schiller, translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Act I, sc. i, 1798.

If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.

Friedrich Schiller
Art, Deeds, Please

There is no solitude in nature.

Friedrich Schiller
Nature, Solitude
Friedrich Schiller (2017). “Philosophical Letters of Friedrich Schiller”, p.15, Litres

The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.

Friedrich Schiller
Laughing, Jokes, Loses
"Die Verschwörung des Fiesco (The Conspiracy of Fiesco)". Book by Friedrich Schiller (Act I, Scene VII), 1783.

The dream is short, repentance long.

Friedrich Schiller
Dream, Long, Repentance
Friedrich Schiller (1842). “Das Lied von der Glocke, von Friedrich von Schiller: With english Translation by Thomas James Arnold”, p.11

The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart.

Friedrich Schiller
Life, Heart, Games

Love is the reward of love.

Friedrich Schiller
Love You, Love Is, Rewards

Truth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no detriment if a criminal denies them.

Friedrich Schiller
Loss, Suffering, Criminals
Friedrich Schiller (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)”, p.3875, Delphi Classics

If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.

Friedrich Schiller
Beauty, Beautiful, Joy

Wise to resolve, patient to perform.

Friedrich Schiller
Wise, Patient, Resolve

Regarded in isolation, an idea may be quite insignificant, and venturesome in the extreme, but it may acquire importance from an idea which follows it; perhaps, in a certain collocation with other ideas, which may seem equally absurd, it may be capable of furnishing a very serviceable link.

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Ideas, Judgement, Connections

Doch zittre vor der langsamen, Der stillen Macht der Zeit. Yet tremble at the slow, silent power of time.

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Time, Silent, Silent Power

The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the reputation I bear.

Friedrich Schiller
Bears, Reputation, Worst

O the eye's light is a noble gift of Heaven! All beings live from light, each fair created thing; the very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light.

Friedrich Schiller
Eye, Light, Heaven

Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought, must submit to fulfill the course of destiny.

Friedrich Schiller
Destiny, Prudent, Failing

In love, Jealousy is the great exaggerator.

Friedrich Schiller
Love Jealousy

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.

Friedrich Schiller
Friendship, Men, Different

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

Friedrich Schiller
Revenge, Despair, Delight

Culture, far from giving us freedom, only develops, as it advances, new necessities; the fetters of the physical close more tightly around us, so that the fear of loss quenches even the ardent impulse toward improvement, and the maxims of passive obedience are held to be the highest wisdom of life.

Friedrich Schiller
Loss, Giving, Culture
Friedrich Schiller (2015). “Aesthetical Essays of Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.34, 谷月社

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