Friedrich Schiller

We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissable, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?

Der Menscheit Würde ist in Eure Hand gegeben, bewahret Sie! Sie sinkt mit euch! Mit euch wird sie sich heben!

Lebe mit deinem Jahrhundert, aber sei nicht sein Geschöpf; leiste deinen Zeitgenossen, aber was sie bedürfen, nicht was sie loben.

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

There's no such thing as chance;
And what to us seems merest accident
Springs from the deepest source of destiny.

Religious fanaticism anticipates even the remotest dangers. Enthusiasm never calculates its sacrifices.

Life is only error,
And death is knowledge.

It is a ring that makes a marriage and it is from rings that chains are made.

What is the short meaning of the long speech?

Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.

Don't let your heart depend on things
That ornament life in a fleeting way!
He who possesses, let him learn to lose,
He who is fortunate, let him learn pain.

...our sex is called timid and weak; believe it no more! We tremble at a spider, but the black monster, corruption, we hug to our arms in sport!

Die Menschheit hat ihre Würde verloren, aber die Kunst hat sie gerettet und aufbewahrt in bedeutenden Steinen; die Wahrheit lebt in der Täuschung fort, und aus dem Nachbilde wird das Urbild wieder hergestellt werden.

Bow before Him, all creation!
Mortals, own the God of love!
Seek Him high the stars above,—
Yonder is His habitation!

Dein Glück ist heute gutgelaunt, / Doch fürchte seinen Unbestand.