Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright
Prefatory Remarks
The Philosophical Letters
“At a crisis in my youth he taught me the wisdom of choice: To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.”
Source: The Functions of the Executive (1938), p. 31
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