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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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Who knows what may be slumbering in the background of time!
Opposition embitters the enthusiast but never converts him.
Misery travels free through the whole world!
Live with your century; but do not be its creature. Work for your contemporaries; but create what they need, not what they praise.
On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
There's no such thing as chance;
Wallenstein (1798)
What the inner voice says
Man is created free, and is free,
The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.
Wir sind Ein Volk, und einig wollen wir handeln.
Wilhelm Tell (1803)
To one it is a mighty heavenly goddess, to the other an excellent cow that furnishes him with butter.
On the mountains there is freedom!
They [the present generation] are like rats crawling about the club of Hercules.
In a narrow circle the mind contracts
Common natures pay with what they do, noble ones with what they are.
Sense of wrongs forget to treasure—
An die Freude (Ode to Joy; or Hymn to Joy) (1785)
It is now as in the days of yore when the sword ruled all things.
Observe, the best of novelties palls when it becomes town talk.
In the smallest cot there is room enough for a loving pair.
I have enjoyed earthly happiness,
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