Friedrich Schiller

Friedrich Schiller

Playwright, Poet

Friedrich Schiller was a German poet and playwright known for his exploration of freedom and humanity in works like 'The Robbers' and 'William Tell'.

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Born
January 10, 1759
Died
May 9, 1805
Quotes
353
Rank
#199

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"Misery travels free through the whole world!"

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

Heart Hypocrisy Yoke
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"The mountain cannot frighten one who was born on it."

Mountain Born
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"I have enjoyed the happiness of the world; I have loved."

Love Romantic World
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"He that is overcautious will accomplish little."

Wise Doubt Investing
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"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."

Pain Heart Ornaments
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"Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect."

Virtue Command Beggar
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"The happy man does not notice the flight of time."

Men Doe Flight
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"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."

Live Life Heart Sorrow
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"In love, Jealousy is the great exaggerator."

Love Jealousy
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"Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping sister, bends with gentle and close embrace over the funeral urn."

Death Flames Funeral
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"Have Love. Not love alone for one, but man as man they brother call; and scatter like the circling sun thy charities on all."

Brother Men Charity
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"Futurity is impregnable to mortal ken: no prayer pierces through heaven's adamantine walls. Whether the birds fly right or left, whatever be the aspect of the stars, the book of nature is a maze, dreams are a lie, and every sign a falsehood."

Dream Stars Prayer
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"A childlike mind in its simplicity practises that science of good to which the wise may be blind."

Wise Simplicity Mind
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