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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger
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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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The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
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When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.
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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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Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.
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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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The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.
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The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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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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How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.
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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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My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.
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The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.
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