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Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Friedrich Schiller

Ah, to that far distant strand
Bridge there was not to convey,
Not a bark was near at hand,
Yet true love soon found the way.

Friedrich Schiller

He, that noble prize possessing—
He that boasts a friend that's true,
He whom woman's love is blessing,
Let him join the chorus too!

Friedrich Schiller

The most perfect of all works of art is true political freedom.

Friedrich Schiller

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.

Friedrich Schiller

Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.

Friedrich Schiller