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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
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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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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A love that dies has never lived.
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There is one privilege we'll never lose currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.
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A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
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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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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.
Franz Grillparzer
Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
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A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.
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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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I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
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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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You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?
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In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.
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Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.
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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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Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.
Franz Grillparzer
Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
Franz Grillparzer
It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.
Franz Grillparzer
