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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
Politician
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?
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If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.
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How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.
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Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.
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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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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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What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.
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When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.
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Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?
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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.
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Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.
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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
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Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.
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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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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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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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