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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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Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
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The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!
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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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The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
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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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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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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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Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.
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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.
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How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
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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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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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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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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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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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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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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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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.
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