FRIEDRICH SCHILLER

(Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller | Johann Friedrich von Schiller)


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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.
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Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.
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It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.
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The strong man is strongest when alone.
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The May of life blooms once and never again.
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The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the former happy resignation to ignorance begins to make way for a state of half-enlightenment, and few persons are willing to remain in the condition in which their birth has placed then.
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A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence.
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Joy is the mainspring in the whole
Of endless Nature's calm rotation.
Joy moves the dazzling wheels that roll
In the great Time-piece of Creation.
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What's old collapses, times change, And new life blossoms in the ruins.
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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
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© Ludovike Simanowiz (1759–1827)
Friedrich Schiller
  • Born: November 10, 1759
  • Died: May 9, 1805
  • Nationality: German
  • Profession: Poet, Playwright, Writer, Historian, Philosopher
Biography

Johann Christoph Friedrich (von) Schiller was a German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life (1788–1805), Schiller developed a productive, if complicated, friendship with the already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. They frequently discussed issues concerning aesthetics, and Schiller encouraged Goethe to finish works he left as sketches. This relationship and these discussions led to a period now referred to as Weimar Classicism. They also worked together on Xenien, a collection of short satirical poems in which both Schiller and Goethe challenge opponents of their philosophical vision.

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