Revenge is barren of itself; itself is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its saiety, despair.
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
Disappointments are to the soul what a thunder-storm is to the air.
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
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.
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller