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O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?
Friedrich Schiller
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Friedrich Schiller
Age: 45 †
Born: 1759
Born: November 10
Died: 1805
Died: May 9
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Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller
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Joh. Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
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There are evil spirits who suddenly fix their abode in man's unguarded breast, causing us to commit devilish deeds, and then, hurrying back to their native hell, leave behind the stings of remorse in the poisoned bosom.
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Live with your century but do not be its creature.
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We are too prone to find fault let us look for some of the perfections.
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The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared by everybody.
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A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together.
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Time flies on restless pinions - constant never.
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Strange customs do not thrive in foreign soil.
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Stubbornness is not firmness.
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There is more to life than just existing and having a pleasant time.
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Youth covets let not this covetousness seduce you.
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Our safety is not in blindness, but in facing our dangers.
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Have Hope. Though clouds environs now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow, - No night but hath its morn.
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He who considers too much will perform little.
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Song forbids victorious deeds to die.
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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.
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Where there is much freedom there is much error.
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Man is made of the wholly common, and custom is his nurse woe then to them who lay irreverent hands on his old house-furniture, the dear inheritance from his forefathers: For time consecrates, and what is gray with age becomes religion.
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A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler's.
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Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.
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Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column.
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