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“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”

Friedrich Schiller Ode to Joy

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

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

Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein

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

“Who reflects too much will accomplish little.”

Friedrich Schiller William Tell

Act III, sc. i
Wilhelm Tell (1803)

“Great souls endure in silence.”

Friedrich Schiller Don Carlos

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)

“He, that noble prize possessing—
He that boasts a friend that's true,
He whom woman's love is blessing,
Let him join the chorus too!”

Friedrich Schiller Ode to Joy

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

“Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.”

Friedrich Schiller book On the Aesthetic Education of Man

Letter 8
On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)

“What is not abandoned is never completely lost.”

Friedrich Schiller Mary Stuart

Was man nicht aufgibt, hat man nie verloren.
Maria Stuart, Act II, sc. v (1800)

“One cannot prevent people from thinking what they please.”

Friedrich Schiller Mary Stuart

Man kann den Menschen nicht verwehren, Zu denken, was sie wollen.
Maria Stuart, Act I, sc. viii (1800)

“O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?”

Friedrich Schiller Don Carlos

Act I, sc. i
Don Carlos (1787)

“Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?”

Friedrich Schiller

Die Verschwörung des Fiesco (The Conspiracy of Fiesco), Act I, sc. xviii (1783)

“Have faith! where'er thy bark is driven,—
'The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth,—
Know this! God rules the host of heaven,
The inhabitants of earth.”

Friedrich Schiller

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

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)

“To the Gods we ne'er can render
Praise for every good they grant;
Let us, with devotion tender,
Minister to grief and want.
Quenched be hate and wrath forever,
Pardoned be our mortal foe—
May our tears upbraid him never,
No repentance bring him low!”

Friedrich Schiller Ode to Joy

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)