Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
Friedrich Schiller

Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.
Friedrich Schiller

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
Friedrich Schiller

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
Friedrich Schiller

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
Friedrich Schiller

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

That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
Friedrich Schiller

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.
Friedrich Schiller

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

The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
Friedrich Schiller

The key to education is the experience of beauty.
Friedrich Schiller

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.
Friedrich Schiller

The strong man is strongest when alone.
Friedrich Schiller

The universe is one of God's thoughts.
Friedrich Schiller

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.
Friedrich Schiller

The will of man is his happiness.
Friedrich Schiller

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.
Friedrich Schiller

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
Friedrich Schiller

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

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