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Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.
Friedrich Schiller
Society
Development
Freedom can occur only through education.
Friedrich Schiller
Education
Freedom
Every true genius is bound to be naive.
Friedrich Schiller
Genius
Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.
Friedrich Schiller
Soul
Disappointments
Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.
Friedrich Schiller
Dream
Deep
Lies
Meaning
Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
Friedrich Schiller
Men
Heart
Honor
Opinions
As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.
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Friend
Mercy
Sun
World
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
Friedrich Schiller
Art
Men
Nature
Being
Right
Art is the daughter of freedom.
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Art
Daughter
Freedom
Appearance rules the world.
Friedrich Schiller
Appearance
Rules
World
A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.
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Wedding
Guest
Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.
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Gods
Stupidity
A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.
Friedrich Schiller
Heart
Reason
Will
A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
Friedrich Schiller
Enemy
May
Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
Friedrich Schiller
Wisdom
Fate