Friedrich Schiller

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Notable quotes

“The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.”
— Die Verschwörung des Fiesco (The Conspiracy of Fiesco), Act I, sc. vii (1783)
“Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.”
— Letter 15
“What is life without the radiance of love?”
— Act IV, sc. xii
“Die schnellen Herrscher sind’s, die kurz regieren.”
— I, 3 / Tell, S. 33
“Vater schieß zu, ich fürcht’ mich nicht.”
— III, 3 / Walther Tell, S. 143
“Self Confidence has always been the parent of great actions.”
— History of the Thirty Years War - Volume II

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