“All men become brothers where thy happy wing-beats are.”

About Friedrich Schiller

1759 – 1805

German poet, playwright and philosopher, author of "The Robbers" and "Ode to Joy".

“A jest loses its point when the jester laughs himself.”

“I know that oft we tremble at an empty terror, but the false phantasm brings a real misery.”

“To save all we must risk all.”

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“To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.”

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“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”

“Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'”

“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”

“Whoever is happy will make others happy too.”