“The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.”
As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts : Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors, Both Ancient and Modern (1891) edited by Tryon Edwards. p. 324
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“Self Confidence has always been the parent of great actions.”
History of the Thirty Years War - Volume II
The Thirty Years War
Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein
Act II, sc. ii
Wallenstein (1798), Part II - Wallensteins Tod (The Death of Wallenstein)
Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein
Act V, sc. xi
Wallenstein (1798), Part II - Wallensteins Tod (The Death of Wallenstein)
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)
Friedrich Schiller Die Worte des Glaubens
Die Worte des Glaubens (The Word of the Faithful), st. 3 (1797)
“Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.”
Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein
Prologue
Wallenstein (1798), Prologue - Wallensteins Lager (Wallenstein's Camp)
“The most pious man can't stay in peace
If it doesn't please his evil neighbor.”
Friedrich Schiller William Tell
Act IV, sc. iii
Wilhelm Tell (1803)
Prefatory Remarks
The Philosophical Letters
“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)
Stanza 8
An die Freude (Ode to Joy; or Hymn to Joy) (1785)
“Many a crown shines spotless now
That yet was deeply sullied in the winning.”
Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein
Act II, sc. ii
Wallenstein (1798), Part II - Wallensteins Tod (The Death of Wallenstein)
“Law can only be applied to foreseeable cases.”
History of the Thirty Years War - Volume II
The Thirty Years War
“Welcome, all ye myriad creatures!
Brethren, take the kiss of love!”
Chorus 1
An die Freude (Ode to Joy; or Hymn to Joy) (1785)
Friedrich Schiller book On the Aesthetic Education of Man
Letter 9
On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)
Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein
Act II, sc. iv
Wallenstein (1798), Part I - Die Piccolomini (The Piccolomini)
Stanza 5
An die Freude (Ode to Joy; or Hymn to Joy) (1785)