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“In thy breast are the stars of thy fate.”

Act II, sc. vi
Wallenstein (1798), Part I - Die Piccolomini (The Piccolomini)

“Live with your century; but do not be its creature. Work for your contemporaries; but create what they need, not what they praise.”

Friedrich Schiller book On the Aesthetic Education of Man

Lebe mit deinem Jahrhundert, aber sei nicht sein Geschöpf; leiste deinen Zeitgenossen, aber was sie bedürfen, nicht was sie loben.
Letter 9
On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)

“Joy, thou spark from Heav'n immortal,
Daughter of Elysium!
Drunk with fire, toward Heaven advancing
Goddess, to thy shrine we come.
Thy sweet magic brings together
What stern Custom spreads afar;
All men become brothers
Where thy happy wing-beats are.”

Friedrich Schiller Ode to Joy

Stanza 1
An die Freude (Ode to Joy; or Hymn to Joy) (1785)

“Life is only error,
And death is knowledge.”

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

Cassandra (1802)

“Each state of the human mind has some parable in the physical creation by which it is shadowed forth; nor is it only artists and poets, but even the most abstract thinkers that have drawn from this source. Lively activity we name fire; time is a stream that rolls on, sweeping all before it; eternity is a circle; a mystery is hid in midnight gloom, and truth dwells in the sun. Nay, I begin to believe that even the future destiny of the human race is prefigured in the dark oracular utterances of bodily creation.”

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

Letter 4: Theosophy of Julius
The Philosophical Letters

“Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse.”

Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein

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

“A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.”

Friedrich Schiller William Tell

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

“Love is only known by him who hopelessly persists in love.”

Friedrich Schiller Don Carlos

Act II, sc. viii
Don Carlos (1787)

“Self Confidence has always been the parent of great actions.”

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

History of the Thirty Years War - Volume II
The Thirty Years War

“This feat of Tell, the archer, will be told
While yonder mountains stand upon their base.
By heaven! The apple's cleft right through the core.”

Friedrich Schiller William Tell

Act III, sc. iii
Wilhelm Tell (1803)

“Bow before him, all creation!
Mortals, own the God of love!
Seek him high the stars above,—
Yonder is his habitation!”

Friedrich Schiller Ode to Joy

Chorus 3
An die Freude (Ode to Joy; or Hymn to Joy) (1785)

“O tender yearning, sweet hoping!
The golden time of first love!
The eye sees the open heaven,
The heart is intoxicated with bliss;
O that the beautiful time of young love
Could remain green forever.”

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

The Song of the Bell (1799)

“Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error, and even of folly, before we work our way up to the noble goal of tranquil wisdom.”

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

Prefatory Remarks
The Philosophical Letters

“My son, there's nothing insignificant,
Nothing! But yet in every earthly thing
First and most principal is place and time.”

Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein

Act I, sc. vi
Wallenstein (1798), Part I - Die Piccolomini (The Piccolomini)

“No cause has he to say his doom is harsh,
Who's made the master of his destiny.”

Friedrich Schiller William Tell

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

“The dignity of mankind is in your hands; protect it!
It sinks with you! With you it will ascend.”

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

Der Menscheit Würde ist in Eure Hand gegeben, bewahret Sie!
Sie sinkt mit euch! Mit euch wird sie sich heben!
Die Künstler (The Artists)
Variant translation: The dignity of mankind is in your hands, preserve it!

“What is life without the radiance of love?”

Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein

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

“Lo, the dead shall rise to heaven!
Brethren hail the blest decree;
Every sin shall be forgiven,
Hell forever cease to be!”

Friedrich Schiller Ode to Joy

Stanza 9
An die Freude (Ode to Joy; or Hymn to Joy) (1785)

“Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others.
Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.”

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

Tabulae Votivae (Votive Tablets) (1796), "The Key"; tr. Edgar Alfred Bowring, The Poems of Schiller, Complete (1851)
Variant translation:[citation needed]
If you want to know yourself,
Just look how others do it;
If you want to understand others,
Look into your own heart

“Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.”

Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein

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