Famous Quotes / Johann Friedrich von Schiller
100 Quotations by Johann Friedrich von Schiller
- 21. He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.
- 22. He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
- 23. He who reflects too much will achieve little.
- 24. Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.
- 25. Honesty prospers in every condition of life.
- 26. I am better than my reputation.
- 27. If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you ha ...
- 28. In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims.
- 29. It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. Th ...
- 30. It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.
- 31. It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.
- 32. It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.
- 33. It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.
- 34. It is wise to disclose what cannot be concealed.
- 35. Jealousy is the great exaggerator.
- 36. Keep true to the dreams of thy youth
- 37. Keep true to the dreams of your youth.
- 38. Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.
- 39. Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man whe ...
- 40. Mankind is made great or little by its own will.