“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)
“The truly enlightened man has no learning, no virtue, no accomplishments, no fame.”
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Essays in Idleness (1967 Columbia University Press, Trns: Donald Keene)
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