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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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I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
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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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Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!
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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.
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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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Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.
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Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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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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What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.
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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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Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
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Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
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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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A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
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In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
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The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.
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In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.
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