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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
Playwright
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.
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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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The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
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Ideas are not thoughts the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.
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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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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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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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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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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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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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