It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he cannot retain.
Friedrich SchillerI know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery.
Friedrich SchillerThe Greeks put us to shame not only by their simplicity, which is foreign to our age; they are at the same time our rivals, nay, frequently our models, in those very points of superiority from which we seek comfort when regretting the unnatural character of our manners. We see that remarkable people uniting at once fullness of form and fullness of substance, both philosophising and creating, both tender and energetic, uniting a youthful fancy to the virility of reason in a glorious humanity.
Friedrich Schiller