
De visione Dei (On The Vision of God) (1453)
Of Wisdom for a Man's Self
Essays (1625)
De visione Dei (On The Vision of God) (1453)
Tabulae Votivae (Votive Tablets) (1796), "The Key"; tr. Edgar Alfred Bowring, The Poems of Schiller, Complete (1851)
Variant translation:[citation needed]
If you want to know yourself,
Just look how others do it;
If you want to understand others,
Look into your own heart
Reported in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 448.
“Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.”
Part I, Section XIX
Christian Morals (first pub. post. 1716)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, P. 554.
“Thou are a better counsellor to others
Than to thyself: I judge by deeds not words.”
Source: Prometheus Bound, lines 335–336 (tr. G. M. Cookson)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 515.
Source: The Way Towards The Blessed Life or the Doctrine of Religion 1806, P. 3
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)