Friedrich Schiller Giving Quotations

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes.

One can give advice comfortably from a safe port.

Culture, far from giving us freedom, only develops, as it advances, new necessities; the fetters of the physical close more tightly around us, so that the fear of loss quenches even the ardent impulse toward improvement, and the maxims of passive obedience are held to be the highest wisdom of life.

Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds.

What else is chance but the rude stone which receives its life from the sculptor's hand? Providence gives us chance, and man must mould it to his own designs.

Never the grave gives back what it has won!