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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.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.
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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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If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.
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I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
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Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
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Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
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The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.
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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.
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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
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Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
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In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
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The real genres: good and bad.
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German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
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Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.
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