More from Friedrich von Schiller

  1. Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse.
  2. Virtue has her heroes too As well as Fame and Fortune.
  3. The empire of Saturnus is gone by; Lord of the secret birth of things is he; Within the lap of earth, and in the depths Of the imagination …
  4. Many a crown shines spotless now That yet was deeply sullied in the winning.
  5. The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man.
  6. There's no such thing as chance; And what to us seems merest accident Springs from the deepest source of destiny.
  7. The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate.
  8. What is life without the radiance of love?

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