“Man is created free, and is free, / Though he be born in chains.”

— Friedrich Schiller, Die Worte des Glaubens (The Word of the Faithful), 1797

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.”

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

“Talk not so much, then, young artist, of the great old masters.”

“Music's golden tongue Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor.”

“All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born.”

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

“Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.”

“If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.”