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If you wish to know yourself observe how others act. If you wish to understand others look into your own heart.

If you wish to know yourself observe how others act. If you wish to understand others look into your own heart.

Friedrich Schiller
Heart, Knowledge, Wish

Don't let your heart depend on things That ornament life in a fleeting way! He who possesses, let him learn to lose, He who is fortunate, let him learn pain.

Friedrich Schiller
Pain, Heart, Ornaments
"The Bride of Messina" by Friedrich Schiller, Act IV, sc. iv, 1803.

I follow my heart, for I can trust it.

Friedrich Schiller
Heart, My Heart, I Can

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Friedrich Schiller
Heart, Power, Emperor

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”

Many a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are.

Friedrich Schiller
Grief, Heart, Mourning

Whatever lives, lives to die in sorrow. We engage our hearts, and grasp after the things of this world, only to undergo the pang of losing them.

Friedrich Schiller
Live Life, Heart, Sorrow
Friedrich Schiller, Henry George Bohn (1849). “Works”, p.80

As freely as the firmament embraces the world, so mercy must encircle friend and foe. The sun poursforth impartially his beams through all the regions of infinity; heaven bestows the dew equally on every thirsty plant. Whatever is good and comes from on high is universal and without reserve: but in the heart's recesses darkness dwells.

Friedrich Schiller
Heart, Heaven, Darkness

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

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

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

Friedrich Schiller
Life, Heart, Games

Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others. Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.

Friedrich Schiller
Life, Heart, Knowledge
Friedrich Schiller (1851). “The Poems of Schiller, Complete: Including All His Early Suppressed Pieces”, p.269

If you want to study yourself, look into the hearts of other people. If you want to study other people, look into your own heart.

Friedrich Schiller
Heart, People, Looks

The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate.

Friedrich Schiller
Life, Heart, Fate
"Wallenstein" by Friedrich Schiller, translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Act III, sc. viii, 1798.

Let him that sows the serpent's teeth not hope to reap a joyous harvest. Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, its own avenging angel,--dark misgivings at the inmost heart.

Friedrich Schiller
Heart, Angel, Dark

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Friedrich Schiller
Heart, Noble, Reason

Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart.

Friedrich Schiller
Heart, Hypocrisy, Yoke
Friedrich Schiller (1864). “The Poems and Ballads of Schiller”, p.77

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