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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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Welcome, all ye myriad creatures!
An die Freude (Ode to Joy; or Hymn to Joy) (1785)
As soon as I have begun to fear I have ceased to fear.
Don't let your heart depend on things
For every event is a judgment of God.
The universe is a thought of God.
A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler's.
I am called
Don Carlos (1787)
Only the worm of conscience consorts with the owl. Sinners and evil spirits shun the light.
The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows.
Good night, Gordon. I am thinking of taking a long sleep.
Law can only be applied to foreseeable cases.
I know that oft we tremble at an empty terror, but the false phantasm brings a real misery.
The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the reputation I bear.
My son, there's nothing insignificant,
Wallenstein (1798)
Does the pilgrim count the miles
The zeal of friends it is that razes me,
To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness.
Thus Arm in Arm with thee I dare defy my century into the lists.
The curse of greatness:
The Moor has done his work, the Moor may go.
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