Friedrich Schiller on Life
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“I've lived and loved.”
“Sein Spruch war: leben und leben lassen.
His saying was: live and let live.”
“Des Lebens Mai blüht einmal und nicht wieder.
The May of life blooms once and never again.”
“Nicht seine Freudenseite kehrte dir Das Leben zu.
Life did not present its sunny side to thee.”
“O'er Ocean, with a thousand masts, sails forth the stripling bold— One boat, hard rescued from the deep, draws into port the old!”
“Wir, wir leben! Unser sind die Stunden Und der Lebende hat Recht.
We, we live! ours are the hours, and the living have their claims.”
“Nicht der Tummelplatz des Lebens—sein Gehalt bestimmt seinen Werth.
'Tis not the mere stage of life but the part we play thereon that gives the value.”
“Das Spiel des Lebens sieht sich heiter an, Wenn man den sichern Schatz im Herzen trägt.
The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart.”
“Wouldst thou wisely, and with pleasure, Pass the days of life's short measure, From the slow one counsel take, But a tool of him ne'er make; Ne'er as friend the swift one know, Nor the constant one as foe.”