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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
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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This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.
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As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
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It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.
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An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.
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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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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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Freedom requires guns.
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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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How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.
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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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