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Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
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Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.
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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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I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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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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Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.
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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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German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
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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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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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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand the natural, they did not have to be artificial in order to be original (which every artist aspires to be).
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Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.
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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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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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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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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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