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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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Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.
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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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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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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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Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?
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Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.
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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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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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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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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
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My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.
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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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The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.
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Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.
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No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.
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In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.
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I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
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