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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
Playwright
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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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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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
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Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.
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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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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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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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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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The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.
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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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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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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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