Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.
Friedrich SchillerMan only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.
Friedrich SchillerWe are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?
Friedrich Schiller