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1759–1805 Germany
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (10 November 1759 – 9 May 1805), usually known as Friedrich Schiller, was a German poet, physician, historian, dramatist, and playwright.
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We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissable, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?
On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)
Rasch tritt der Tod den Menschen an,
Wilhelm Tell (1803)
[...] allzustraff gespannt zerspringt der Bogen.
Wilhelm Tell (1803)
[...] Redlichkeit gedeiht in jedem Stande.
Wilhelm Tell (1803)
The intelligible forms of ancient poets,
Wallenstein (1798)
Fortune, which had never forsaken him in his lifetime, favored the King of Sweden even in his death, with the rare privilege of falling in the fullness of his glory and an untarnished fame. By a timely death, his protecting genius rescued him from the inevitable fate of man - that of forgetting moderation in the intoxication of success, and justice in the plenitude of power.
Tabulae Votivae (Votive Tablets) (1796), "The Key"; tr. Edgar Alfred Bowring, The Poems of Schiller, Complete (1851)
Joy from truth's own glass of fire
An die Freude (Ode to Joy; or Hymn to Joy) (1785)
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