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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
Poet
Politician
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
Genius
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Lightning
Flash
Sun

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How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives.
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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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It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.
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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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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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Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference.
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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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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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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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Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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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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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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Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger
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The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
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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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Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.
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