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Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.
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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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Ideas are not thoughts the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
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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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Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
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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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I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love I have learned to lose and to resign myself.
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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 verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
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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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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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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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