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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
Playwright
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
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Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me unfolds at thesame time. The hearts of how many heroes and poets may have been set on fire by Plutarch's biographies which now inspire me with their own and with borrowed flames!
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A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.
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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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Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.
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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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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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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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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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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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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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Freedom requires guns.
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A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.
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Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
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