01c. 1782 ADIt is difficult to understand men, but still harder to know them thoroughly.Schiller / quote ↗
02c. 1782 ADHe who has given satisfaction to the best of his time has lived for ages.Schiller / quote ↗
03c. 1782 ADIt is not flesh and blood, it is the heart, that makes fathers and sons.Schiller / quote ↗
15c. 1782 ADFoster the good, and thou shalt tend the flower Already sown on earth;— Foster the beautiful, and every hour, Thou call’st new flowers to birth.Schiller / quote ↗
16c. 1782 ADConsider well. The heart is a deceiver, O, paltering with it, in some double sense, Thou’st shunned, perhaps, the word that would condemn thee, E’en while thy will was partner in the crime.Schiller / quote ↗
17c. 1782 ADSee! full of hope, thou trustest to the earth The golden seed, and waitest till the Spring Summons the buried to a happier birth; But, in Time’s furrow duly scattering, Think’st thou how deeds, by wisdom sown, may be Silently ripen’d for eternity?Schiller / quote ↗
18c. 1782 ADWhat reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident collects in one brief moment.Schiller / quote ↗
19c. 1782 ADArt is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.Schiller / quote ↗
22c. 1782 ADWhoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought, must submit to fulfill the course of destiny.Schiller / quote ↗
24c. 1782 ADThe ridiculous rage for innovation, which only increases the weight of the chains it cannot break, shall never fire my blood!Schiller / quote ↗
