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

— Friedrich Schiller, Wallenstein, 1798, Wallensteins Tod, Act I, sc. vii

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.”

“Some virtues are only seen in affliction and some in prosperity.”

“Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.”

“Prosperity is the best protector of principle.”

“Do not try to live for ever. You will not succeed.”

“Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.”

“The sun shall never set on so glorious a human achievement!”