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If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.

Franz Grillparzer

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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
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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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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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Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.
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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 courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.
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A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.
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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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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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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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The real genres: good and bad.
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Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.
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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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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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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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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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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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