When the mechanic has to mend a watch he lets the wheels run out; but the living watchworks of the state have to be repaired while they act, and a wheel has to be exchanged for another during its revolutions.
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About Friedrich Schiller
Friedrich Schiller was a 18th-century German playwright. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German playwright, poet, philosopher and historian. Schiller is considered to be one of Germany's most important classical playwrights. Read more on Wikipedia →
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- Politics — Governance, civic duty, and the structures of power