German - Dramatist | November 10, 1759 - May 9, 1805
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
Friedrich Schiller
NatureArtMenHandRightUs
The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.
WorldOnlyConsiderationAdvantages
Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
PowerRhetoricPersuasiveMost
With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
StruggleStupidityGodsVain
Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.
SocietyAestheticDevelopmentMatters
Votes should be weighed not counted.
VotesShouldWeighedCounted
Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.
TimeMomentYourselfLoseSeizeOff
The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.
WorldRichCryPoorBecomeWhole
To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
GreatFightingCrownDivineGain
Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
FoodRevengeEndDespairDelight
Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.
WorkKnowledgeActionThreeMotivate
Every true genius is bound to be naive.
IntelligenceGeniusTrueNaiveBound
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