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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
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.
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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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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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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 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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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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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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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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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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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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