“Talbot : […] Les dieux mêmes combattent en vain contre la stupidité.”
La Pucelle d’Orléans (Die Jungfrau von Orleans), 1801
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Friedrich von Schiller Citations
Friedrich von Schiller Lettres sur l’éducation esthétique de l’homme
Lettres sur l’éducation esthétique de l’homme ('), 1795
Friedrich von Schiller: Citations en anglais
“Appearance should never attain reality,
And if nature conquers, then must art retire.”
To Goethe, when he put Voltaire's Mahomet on the stage (1800)
Reported in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), edited bt Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 284
“Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?”
Die Verschwörung des Fiesco (The Conspiracy of Fiesco), Act I, sc. xviii (1783)
“O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?”
Friedrich Schiller Don Carlos
Act I, sc. i
Don Carlos (1787)
“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)
“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)
Friedrich Schiller livre On the Aesthetic Education of Man
Letter 8
On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)
Friedrich Schiller Ode to Joy
Stanza 3
An die Freude (Ode to Joy; or Hymn to Joy) (1785)
“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)
“Who reflects too much will accomplish little.”
Friedrich Schiller William Tell
Act III, sc. i
Wilhelm Tell (1803)
Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein
Act IV, sc. v, Kellermeister (Master of the Cellar)
Wallenstein (1798), Part I - Die Piccolomini (The Piccolomini)
“A moment lived in paradise
Is not atoned for too dearly by death.”
Friedrich Schiller Don Carlos
Act I, sc. v
Don Carlos (1787)
Friedrich Schiller Ode to Joy
Stanza 4
An die Freude (Ode to Joy; or Hymn to Joy) (1785)
Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein
Act I, sc. i
Wallenstein (1798), Part II - Wallensteins Tod (The Death of Wallenstein)
“Pain is short, and joy is eternal.”
Friedrich Schiller The Maid of Orleans
The Maid of Orleans (1801), last line
Friedrich Schiller livre On the Aesthetic Education of Man
Letter 3
On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)
“The strong man is strongest when alone.”
Friedrich Schiller William Tell
Tell, Act I, sc. iii, as translated by Sir Thomas Martin
Wilhelm Tell (1803)
Friedrich Schiller livre On the Aesthetic Education of Man
Letter 2
On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)
Friedrich Schiller Ode to Joy
Stanza 5
An die Freude (Ode to Joy; or Hymn to Joy) (1785)
Prefatory Remarks
The Philosophical Letters
History of the Thirty Years War - Volume II
Attitude of the Imperial/League army after the protestant victory at Brietenfeld.
The Thirty Years War
“The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.”
Die Verschwörung des Fiesco (The Conspiracy of Fiesco), Act I, sc. vii (1783)
Friedrich Schiller livre On the Aesthetic Education of Man
On the famous statue "Juno Ludovisi", Letter 15
On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)
“You say it as you understand it.”
Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein
Act II, sc. vi
Wallenstein (1798), Part I - Die Piccolomini (The Piccolomini)
Friedrich Schiller livre On the Aesthetic Education of Man
Letter 35
On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)
Friedrich Schiller The Bride of Messina
Die Braut von Messina (The Bride of Messina), Act IV, sc. iv (1803)
“I have only an office here, and no opinion.”
Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein
Act I, sc. v
Wallenstein (1798), Part II - Wallensteins Tod (The Death of Wallenstein)
History of the Thirty Years War - Volume II
The Thirty Years War
