Friedrich Schiller

"He who loses his individuality has lost all."

"That which matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it."

"The richness of life lies in variety."

"In the arena of human life, the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action."

"It is not merit but love that gives the highest reward."

"Grief increases the acuteness of our perceptions."

"The character of a nation is the aggregate character of its individuals."

"When necessity calls, heroes cry out."

"An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult."

"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action."

"Where true love exists, nothing is forbidden."

"One of the most striking accomplishments of my age is that illusions have devoured nations."

"The man who has never grieved over the loss of truth, has never truly lived."

"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in a vast ocean."

"When humanity is truly ennobled, the intellect rises with it."

"Death is the greatest benefit we can give to the world."

"The deepest waters run the still."

"The day on which one has done nothing is not wholly lost."

"The dream is knowledge incarnate."

"Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

"Against stupidity we have no defense. Neither protests nor force can touch it."

"I cannot hear a name spoken without imagining to myself a picture of that person."

"Only through time is time conquered."

"Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are."

"No one is hard who doesn't wish to be."

"Give me a place to stand, and I will move the world."

"The greatest courage a man can show is to stand alone."

"The moment of supreme happiness is when a human being becomes greater than himself."

"Justice is the highest human law."

"I love those who can smile in trouble."