“Talbot : […] Les dieux mêmes combattent en vain contre la stupidité.”
La Pucelle d’Orléans (Die Jungfrau von Orleans), 1801
Johann Christoph Friedrich Schiller est un poète et écrivain allemand, né le 10 novembre 1759 à Marbach am Neckar et mort le 9 mai 1805 à Weimar.
“Talbot : […] Les dieux mêmes combattent en vain contre la stupidité.”
La Pucelle d’Orléans (Die Jungfrau von Orleans), 1801
Lettres sur l’éducation esthétique de l’homme ('), 1795
Act I, sc. vi
Wallenstein (1798), Part I - Die Piccolomini (The Piccolomini)
“Love is only known by him who hopelessly persists in love.”
Act II, sc. viii
Don Carlos (1787)
“A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.”
Act IV, sc. iii, as translated by Sir Thomas Martin
Wilhelm Tell (1803)
“Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse.”
Act I, sc. iv
Wallenstein (1798), Part II - Wallensteins Tod (The Death of Wallenstein)
Letter 4: Theosophy of Julius
The Philosophical Letters
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)
“In thy breast are the stars of thy fate.”
Act II, sc. vi
Wallenstein (1798), Part I - Die Piccolomini (The Piccolomini)
History of the Thirty Years War - Volume II
The Thirty Years War
“The mountain cannot frighten one who was born on it.”
Act III, sc. i
Wilhelm Tell (1803)
“The lemonade is weak, like your soul.”
Kabale und Liebe (Intrigue and Love), Act V, sc. vii (1784)
“What is the short meaning of the long speech?”
Act I, sc. ii
Wallenstein (1798), Part I - Die Piccolomini (The Piccolomini)
Act II, sc. iii
Wallenstein (1798), Part II - Wallensteins Tod (The Death of Wallenstein)
Letter 9
On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)
Letter 4: Theosophy of Julius
The Philosophical Letters
Act I, sc. ii
(de) Der Krieg ernährt den Krieg.
Wallenstein (1798), Part I - Die Piccolomini (The Piccolomini)
“Life is but a moment. Death is but a moment, too.”
Das Leben ist Nur ein Moment, der Tod ist auch nur einer!
Maria Stuart, Act III, sc. vi (1800)
“Virtue has her heroes too
As well as Fame and Fortune.”
Act I, sc. vii
Wallenstein (1798), Part II - Wallensteins Tod (The Death of Wallenstein)
“What are hopes, what are plans?”
Die Braut von Messina (The Bride of Messina), Act III, sc. v (1803)
“The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate.”
Act III, sc. viii
Wallenstein (1798), Part I - Die Piccolomini (The Piccolomini)
“Man is created free, and is free,
Though he be born in chains.”
Die Worte des Glaubens (The Word of the Faithful), st. 2 (1797)
“You saw his weakness, and he will never forgive you.”
Act III, sc. i
Wilhelm Tell (1803)