“Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright
Die Verschwörung des Fiesco (The Conspiracy of Fiesco), Act I, sc. xviii (1783)
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Reported in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), edited bt Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 284
“Appearance should never attain reality,
And if nature conquers, then must art retire.”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright
To Goethe, when he put Voltaire's Mahomet on the stage (1800)
“You saw his weakness, and he will never forgive you.”
Friedrich Schiller William Tell
Act III, sc. i
Wilhelm Tell (1803)
Stanza 6
An die Freude (Ode to Joy; or Hymn to Joy) (1785)
“Man is created free, and is free,
Though he be born in chains.”
Friedrich Schiller Die Worte des Glaubens
Die Worte des Glaubens (The Word of the Faithful), st. 2 (1797)
“The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate.”
Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein
Act III, sc. viii
Wallenstein (1798), Part I - Die Piccolomini (The Piccolomini)
“What are hopes, what are plans?”
Friedrich Schiller The Bride of Messina
Die Braut von Messina (The Bride of Messina), Act III, sc. v (1803)
“Virtue has her heroes too
As well as Fame and Fortune.”
Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein
Act I, sc. vii
Wallenstein (1798), Part II - Wallensteins Tod (The Death of Wallenstein)
“Life is but a moment. Death is but a moment, too.”
Friedrich Schiller Mary Stuart
Das Leben ist Nur ein Moment, der Tod ist auch nur einer!
Maria Stuart, Act III, sc. vi (1800)
“What the inner voice says
Will not disappoint the hoping soul.”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright
Hope, last stanza (1797)
Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein
Act I, sc. ii
(de) Der Krieg ernährt den Krieg.
Wallenstein (1798), Part I - Die Piccolomini (The Piccolomini)
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright
Letter 4: Theosophy of Julius
The Philosophical Letters
Friedrich Schiller book On the Aesthetic Education of Man
Letter 9
On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)
Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein
Act II, sc. iii
Wallenstein (1798), Part II - Wallensteins Tod (The Death of Wallenstein)
“What is the short meaning of the long speech?”
Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein
Act I, sc. ii
Wallenstein (1798), Part I - Die Piccolomini (The Piccolomini)
“The lemonade is weak, like your soul.”
Friedrich Schiller Intrigue and Love
Kabale und Liebe (Intrigue and Love), Act V, sc. vii (1784)
“The mountain cannot frighten one who was born on it.”
Friedrich Schiller William Tell
Act III, sc. i
Wilhelm Tell (1803)
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright
History of the Thirty Years War - Volume II
The Thirty Years War