WorkFriedrich Schiller

“Sprüche des Konfuzius" [The Proverbs of Confucius], in Musen-Almanach”

Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) · 1795/96

InferredThe two quoted lines—'Of itself will nothing come, / That ye must still be seeking'—are most consistent with Schiller's epigrammatic poems on Oriental wisdom; the closest match is his 'Sprüche des Konfuzius' (Proverbs of Confucius, 1795/96), which Fuller mocks by attributing to 'modern sages — in imitation of the sitting philosophers of ancient Ind.'

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Documented 1843

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Summer on the Lakes, in 1843

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“those modern sages, who, in imitation of the sitting philosophers of ancient Ind, prefer silence to speech, waiting to going, and scornfully smile in answer to the motions of earnest life, / "Of itself will nothing come, / That ye must still be seeking?”

Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.

Inferred The two quoted lines—'Of itself will nothing come, / That ye must still be seeking'—are most consistent with Schiller's epigrammatic poems on Oriental wisdom; the closest match is his 'Sprüche des Konfuzius' (Proverbs of Confucius, 1795/96), which Fuller mocks by attributing to 'modern sages — in imitation of the sitting philosophers of ancient Ind.'