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As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.
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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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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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Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
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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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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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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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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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I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love I have learned to lose and to resign myself.
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Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
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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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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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Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise 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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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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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 human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.
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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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Servants honor their master by their service.
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No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.
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