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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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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A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
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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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In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.
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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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The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.
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If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.
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If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.
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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.
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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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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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Freedom requires guns.
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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 verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
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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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The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
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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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It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.
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