Friedrich Schiller

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.

In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.

Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.

The history of the world is the world's court of justice.

The will of man is his happiness.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

Freedom can occur only through education.