Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
70 quotations
One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.
What shall he fear that does not fear death.
That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.
No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who's made the master of his destiny.
Keep true to the dreams of your youth.
Votes should be weighed not counted.
Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.
Where there is much freedom there is much error.
Freedom exists only with power.
Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.
The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.
The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.
Nothing leads to good that is not natural.
Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.
It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.
Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.
There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.
Honesty prospers in every condition of life.
Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.
Mankind is made great or little by its own will.