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Franz Grillparzer Inspirational Quotes (125)

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Gold schenkt die Eitelkeit, der rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft und die Liebe schenken Blumen. Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.
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The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
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Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.
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A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
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The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.
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Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.
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Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.
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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!
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I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love I have learned to lose and to resign myself.
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Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.
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If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.
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I understand the phrase Honor the Women all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.
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The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.
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The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.
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There is one privilege we'll never lose currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.
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A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
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Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun--the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh.
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You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?
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