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A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.

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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Times
Men
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Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
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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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Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.
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Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
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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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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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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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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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The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
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Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.
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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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The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
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Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference.
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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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Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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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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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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