Friedrich Schiller

10 November 1759 – 9 May 1805 / Marbach, Württemberg

The Two Paths Of Virtue

Two are the pathways by which mankind can to virtue mount upward;
If thou should find the one barred, open the other will lie.
'Tis by exertion the happy obtain her, the suffering by patience.
Blest is the man whose kind fate guides him along upon both!
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