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1. "Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens." ~ Friedrich Schiller
2. "Oh how can we, scarce mastering our passions, expect that youth should keep itself in check?" ~ Friedrich Schiller
3. "It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons." ~ Friedrich Schiller
4. "Curious,' the Prince continued, after a deep silence, 'is it possible never to have known something, never to have missed it in its absence -- and a few moments later to live in and for that single experience alone? Can a single moment make a man so different from himself? It would be just as impossible for me to return to the joys and wishes of yesterday morning as it would for me to return to the games of childhood, now that I have seen that object, now that her image dwells here -- and I have this living, overpowering feeling within me: from now on you can love nothing other than her, and in this world nothing else will ever have any effect on you." ~ Friedrich Schiller
5. "The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself." ~ Friedrich Schiller
6. "So it has reached this pass? Obedience and fear take flight together?" ~ Friedrich Schiller
7. "Only through Beauty's morning-gate, dost thou penetrate the land of knowledge." ~ Friedrich Schiller
8. "I feel an army in my fist." ~ Friedrich Schiller
9. "Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?" ~ Friedrich Schiller
10. "In the case of the creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell, and only then does it review and inspect the multitude. You worthy critics, or whatever you may call yourselves, are ashamed or afraid of the momentary and passing madness which is found in all real creators, the longer or shorter duration of which distinguishes the thinking artist from the dreamer. Hence your complaints of unfruitfulness, for you reject too soon and discriminate too severely." ~ Friedrich Schiller
11. "Art is the daughter of freedom." ~ Friedrich Schiller
12. "Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine." ~ Friedrich Schiller
13. "Mankind is made great or little by its own will." ~ Friedrich Schiller
14. "It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases." ~ Friedrich Schiller
15. "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." ~ Friedrich Schiller
16. "Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays." ~ Friedrich Schiller
17. "Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men." ~ Friedrich Schiller
18. "Nothing leads to good that is not natural." ~ Friedrich Schiller
19. "It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so." ~ Friedrich Schiller
20. "Appearance rules the world." ~ Friedrich Schiller
21. "Great souls suffer in silence." ~ Friedrich Schiller
22. "The man of courage thinks not of himself. Help the oppressed and put thy trust in God." ~ Friedrich Schiller
23. "Stay true to the dreams of thy youth." ~ Friedrich Schiller
24. "Nicht an die Güter hänge dein Herz,Die das Leben vergänglich zieren!Wer besitzt, der lerne verlieren,Wer im Glück ist, der lerne den Schmerz!" ~ Friedrich Schiller
25. "Let not thy heart cling to the things which for so short a time deck out thy life. Let him who has, learn to lose, and him who is happy, familiarise himself with what may give pain." ~ Friedrich Schiller
26. "If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad." ~ Friedrich Schiller
27. "When the wine goes in, strange things come out." ~ Friedrich Schiller
28. "Unsere Träume, Unsere Sehnsüchte, und bunten Hoffnungen wollen ernst und wichtig genommen werden.Wer sie verdrängt, unterdrückt das Beste in sich und wird ein leerer Mensch." ~ Friedrich Schiller
29. "The iron chain and the silken cord are both equally bonds." ~ Friedrich Schiller
30. "Wenn ich bei dir bin, zerschmilzt meine Vernunft in einen Blick - in einen Traum von dir, wenn ich weg bin." ~ Friedrich Schiller
31. "God helps the brave" ~ Friedrich Schiller
32. "On the mountains there is freedom! The world is perfect everywhere, save where man comes with his torment." ~ Friedrich Schiller
33. "But how is the artist to protect himself against the corruption of the age which besets him on all sides?" ~ Friedrich Schiller
34. "Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it." ~ Friedrich Schiller
35. "hidup yang tak dipertaruhkan, tak akan pernah dimenangkan" ~ Friedrich Schiller
36. "Our age is enlightened... How is it, then, that we still remain barbarians?" ~ Friedrich Schiller
37. "Der Mensch braucht wenig, und an Leben reich Ist die Natur." ~ Friedrich Schiller
38. "Wenn es immer nach deinem Kopf ginge, du kröchest dein Leben lang im Staub." - "Immer noch besser, als ich kröch um den Thron herum." ~ Friedrich Schiller
39. "Liebe Kennt der allein, der ohne Hoffnung liebt." ~ Friedrich Schiller
40. "Keep true to the dreams of your youth." ~ Friedrich Schiller
41. "Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom." ~ Friedrich Schiller
42. "Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change." ~ Friedrich Schiller
43. "Every true genius is bound to be naive." ~ Friedrich Schiller
44. "Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air." ~ Friedrich Schiller
45. "There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair." ~ Friedrich Schiller
46. "Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful." ~ Friedrich Schiller
47. "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
48. "Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor." ~ Friedrich Schiller
49. "To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine." ~ Friedrich Schiller
50. "Live with your century; but do not be its creature." ~ Friedrich Schiller

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