Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1694 |
| AUTHOR: | Friedrich von Schiller (1759–1805) |
| QUOTATION: | Great souls endure in silence. (Grosse Seelen dulden still.) |
| ATTRIBUTION: | “Great spirits suffer patiently” is the translation in Friedrich Schiller, Plays, ed. Walter Hinderer, Don Carlos trans. A. Leslie and Jeanne R. Willson, p. 124 (1983). |
| SUBJECTS: | Silence |