Quote #127
Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
More from Friedrich von Schiller
- Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
- Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
- Nothing leads to good that is not natural.
- Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
- Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.
- Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
- No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
- That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.