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Friedrich Schiller
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Friedrich Schiller

“A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.”

- Friedrich Schiller

Source/Notes: Act IV, sc. iii, as translated by Sir Thomas Martin - Wilhelm Tell (1803)
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“A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.”

- Friedrich Schiller

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“A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.”

- Friedrich Schiller

Source/Notes: Variant: "A noble heart is always happy to admit the victory of Reason's arguments." From: The Maid of Orleans (play) Act II, written in 1801
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Friedrich Schiller

“Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.”

- Friedrich Schiller

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“Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.”

- Friedrich Schiller

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“All things must; man is the only creature that wills.”

- Friedrich Schiller

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“Appearance rules the world.”

- Friedrich Schiller

Source/Notes: Friedrich Schiller: Poet of Freedom (1988 edition), Schiller Inst
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“Art is the daughter of freedom.”

- Friedrich Schiller

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“Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.”

- Friedrich Schiller

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“As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.”

- Friedrich Schiller

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“Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.”

- Friedrich Schiller

Source/Notes: Schiller's Complete Works (1861 edition)
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“Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.”

- Friedrich Schiller

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“Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.”

- Friedrich Schiller

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“Every true genius is bound to be naive.”

- Friedrich Schiller

Source/Notes: "On Naive and Sentimental Poetry", originally published in 1795
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