Quote #114
It is base to filch a purse, daring to embezzle a million, but it is great beyond measure to steal a crown. The sin lessens as the guilt increases.
More from Friedrich von Schiller
- It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.
- It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.
- It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.
- It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.
- In the society where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.
- It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.
- I see before me the father of my parents.
- Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.