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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.

Franz Grillparzer

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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
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The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.
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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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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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A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
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Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.
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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
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I understand the phrase Honor the Women all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.
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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
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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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Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
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