8 Friedrich von Schiller Quotes on Morality

Friedrich von Schiller quotes on morality

6. There are three lessons I would write, Three words as with a burning pen, In tracings of eternal light Upon the hearts of men.

13. Virtue is no empty echo.

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41. Sense of wrongs forget to treasure- Brethren, live in perfect love! In the starry realms above, God will mete as we may measure.

47. When man is raised from his slumber in the senses, he feels that he is a man, he surveys his surroundings, and finds that he is in a state. He was introduced into this state, by the power of circumstances, before he could freely select his own position. But as a moral being he cannot possibly rest satisfied with a political condition forced upon him by necessity, and only calculated for that condition; and it would be unfortunate if this did satisfy him. In many cases man shakes off this blind law of necessity, by his free spontaneous action, of which among many others we have an instance, in his ennobling by beauty and suppressing by moral influence the powerful impulse implanted in him by nature in the passion of love.

59. Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.

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71. Virtue has her heroes too As well as Fame and Fortune.

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109. Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

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112. It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.

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