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“The world is narrow, broad the mind—
Thoughts dwell easily side by side
Things collide violently in space”

Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein

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

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“Time is man's angel.”

Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein

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

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“If thou canst not give pleasure to all by thy deeds and thy knowledge
Give it then, unto the few; many to please is but in vain.”

Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright

Kannst du nicht allen gefallen durch deine That und dein Kunstwerk, // Mach es wenigen recht, vielen gefallen ist schlimm.
Tabulae Votivae (Votive Tablets) (1796), "Choice"; tr. Edgar Alfred Bowring, The Poems of Schiller, Complete (1851)

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“It is an unfailing maxim, that if policy enjoins an act of violence, its execution must never be entrusted to the violent.”

Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright

The Thirty Years War

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“Virtue is no empty echo.”

Friedrich Schiller Die Worte des Glaubens

Die Worte des Glaubens (The Word of the Faithful), st. 3 (1797)

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“Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.”

Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein

Prologue
Wallenstein (1798), Prologue - Wallensteins Lager (Wallenstein's Camp)

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“Truth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no detriment if a criminal denies them.”

Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright

Prefatory Remarks
The Philosophical Letters

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“He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.”

Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein

Prologue
Wallenstein (1798), Prologue - Wallensteins Lager (Wallenstein's Camp)