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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
Poet
Politician
Writer
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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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
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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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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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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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Ideas are not thoughts the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
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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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What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.
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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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Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.
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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 ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!
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A love that dies has never lived.
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The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.
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The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
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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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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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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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