“I am called
The richest monarch in the Christian world;
The sun in my dominion never sets.”

— Friedrich Schiller , Don Carlos

Act I, sc. vi
Don Carlos (1787)

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German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright 1759–1805

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“I am called
The richest monarch in the Christian world;
The sun in my dominion never sets.”