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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.

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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Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
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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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In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
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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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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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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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A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.
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German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
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It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.
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