“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
Friedrich von Schiller Lettres sur l’éducation esthétique de l’homme
Lettres sur l’éducation esthétique de l’homme ('), 1795
Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein
Act I, sc. vi
Wallenstein (1798), Part I - Die Piccolomini (The Piccolomini)
Friedrich Schiller Ode to Joy
Chorus 3
An die Freude (Ode to Joy; or Hymn to Joy) (1785)
Friedrich Schiller William Tell
Act III, sc. iii
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)
“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)
“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)
Letter 4: Theosophy of Julius
The Philosophical Letters
Friedrich Schiller Ode to Joy
Stanza 1
An die Freude (Ode to Joy; or Hymn to Joy) (1785)
Friedrich Schiller livre 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)
“In thy breast are the stars of thy fate.”
Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein
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.”
Friedrich Schiller William Tell
Act III, sc. i
Wilhelm Tell (1803)
“The lemonade is weak, like your soul.”
Friedrich Schiller Intrigue and Love
Kabale und Liebe (Intrigue and Love), Act V, sc. vii (1784)
Friedrich Schiller The Robbers
Die Räuber (The Robbers), Act II (1781)
“What is the short meaning of the long speech?”
Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein
Act I, sc. ii
Wallenstein (1798), Part I - Die Piccolomini (The Piccolomini)
Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein
Act II, sc. iii
Wallenstein (1798), Part II - Wallensteins Tod (The Death of Wallenstein)
Friedrich Schiller livre On the Aesthetic Education of Man
Letter 9
On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)
Letter 4: Theosophy of Julius
The Philosophical Letters
Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein
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.”
Friedrich Schiller Mary Stuart
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.”
Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein
Act I, sc. vii
Wallenstein (1798), Part II - Wallensteins Tod (The Death of Wallenstein)
“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)
“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)
“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)
Friedrich Schiller Ode to Joy
Stanza 6
An die Freude (Ode to Joy; or Hymn to Joy) (1785)
“You saw his weakness, and he will never forgive you.”
Friedrich Schiller William Tell
Act III, sc. i
Wilhelm Tell (1803)