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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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People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.
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Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
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Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
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Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.
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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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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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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 office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.
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Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me unfolds at thesame time. The hearts of how many heroes and poets may have been set on fire by Plutarch's biographies which now inspire me with their own and with borrowed flames!
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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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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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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
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Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
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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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A love that dies has never lived.
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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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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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Freedom requires guns.
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Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
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The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.
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