The Maid of Orleans
tragedy by Friedrich Schiller
The Maid of Orleans is an 1801 play by Friedrich Schiller based on the life of Joan of Arc. It includes the sentence “against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain” which was later used by Isaac Asimov when naming his book The Gods Themselves.
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