Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.
Friedrich Schiller
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Friedrich Schiller
Age: 45 †
Born: 1759
Born: November 10
Died: 1805
Died: May 9
Historian
Journalist
Librarian
Novelist
Philosopher
Physician Writer
Playwright
Poet
Translator
University Teacher
Writer
Marbach/Neckar
Schillerean
Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller
Johann C. F. Schiller
Johann Christoph Friedrich Schiller
Schiller
Fridrikh Shiller
Fridrikh Shiler
F. Shiller
Frideriko Schiller
Joh. Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
Frederick Schiller
Hsi-le
Friedrich von Schiller
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
Increase
Criminal
Purse
Stealing
Purses
Criminals
Crown
Guilt
Increases
Greatness
Crowns
Blame
Diminish
Fortune
Steal
Mark
Daring
Diminishes
More quotes by Friedrich Schiller
Joy all creatures drink At nature's bosoms.
Friedrich Schiller
Youth covets let not this covetousness seduce you.
Friedrich Schiller
Secrecy is for the happy,--misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil under a thousand suns it dares act openly.
Friedrich Schiller
Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
Friedrich Schiller
The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
Friedrich Schiller
Gray hairs are death's blossoms.
Friedrich Schiller
You saw his weakness, and he will never forgive you.
Friedrich Schiller
Art is the daughter of freedom.
Friedrich Schiller
If you wish to know yourself observe how others act. If you wish to understand others look into your own heart.
Friedrich Schiller
Uncommon men require no common trust give him but scope and he will set the bounds.
Friedrich Schiller
Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.
Friedrich Schiller
A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.
Friedrich Schiller
Fate always wins, for our own heart within us Imperiously furthers its designs.
Friedrich Schiller
Keep true to the dreams of your youth.
Friedrich Schiller
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
Joy is the mainspring in the whole Of endless Nature's calm rotation. Joy moves the dazzling wheels that roll In the great Time-piece of Creation.
Friedrich Schiller
The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.
Friedrich Schiller
Heaven and earth fight in vain against a dunce!
Friedrich Schiller
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
The mountain cannot frighten one who was born on it.
Friedrich Schiller
