Act I, sc. iv ; as translated by R. D. Boylan and Joseph Mellish (1902)
Variant: ""Great spirits suffer patiently""; as translated by A. Leslie and Jeanne R. Willson (1983)
Don Carlos (1787)

“Who reflects too much will accomplish little.”

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Friedrich Schiller Wilhelm Tell

Act III, sc. i
Wilhelm Tell (1803)

“The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man.”

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Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein

Act IV, sc. v, Kellermeister (Master of the Cellar)
Wallenstein (1798), Part I - Die Piccolomini (The Piccolomini)

“A moment lived in paradise
Is not atoned for too dearly by death.”

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Friedrich Schiller Don Karlos

Act I, sc. v
Don Carlos (1787)

“Joy, in Nature's wide dominion,
Mightiest cause of all is found;
And 'tis joy that moves the pinion,
When the wheel of time goes round”

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Friedrich Schiller An die Freude

Stanza 4
An die Freude (Ode to Joy; or Hymn to Joy) (1785)

“The empire of Saturnus is gone by;
Lord of the secret birth of things is he;
Within the lap of earth, and in the depths
Of the imagination dominates;
And his are all things that eschew the light.
The time is o'er of brooding and contrivance,
For Jupiter, the lustrous, lordeth now,
And the dark work, complete of preparation,
He draws by force into the realm of light.
Now must we hasten on to action, ere
The scheme, and most auspicious positure
Parts o'er my head, and takes once more its flight,
For the heavens journey still, and adjourn not.”

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Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein

Act I, sc. i
Wallenstein (1798), Part II - Wallensteins Tod (The Death of Wallenstein)

“Only through Beauty's morning gate, dost thou enter the land of Knowledge.”

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Friedrich Schiller

Die Künstler (The Artists)

“Pain is short, and joy is eternal.”

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Friedrich Schiller Die Jungfrau von Orleans

The Maid of Orleans (1801), last line

“When man is raised from his slumber in the senses, he feels that he is a man, he surveys his surroundings, and finds that he is in a state. He was introduced into this state, by the power of circumstances, before he could freely select his own position. But as a moral being he cannot possibly rest satisfied with a political condition forced upon him by necessity, and only calculated for that condition; and it would be unfortunate if this did satisfy him. In many cases man shakes off this blind law of necessity, by his free spontaneous action, of which among many others we have an instance, in his ennobling by beauty and suppressing by moral influence the powerful impulse implanted in him by nature in the passion of love.”

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Friedrich Schiller buch Über die ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen

Letter 3
On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)

“The strong man is strongest when alone.”

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Friedrich Schiller Wilhelm Tell

Tell, Act I, sc. iii, as translated by Sir Thomas Martin
Wilhelm Tell (1803)

“We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissable, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?”

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Friedrich Schiller buch Über die ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen

Letter 2
On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)