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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
Politician
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
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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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The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
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The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
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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.
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If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.
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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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In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.
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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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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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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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In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.
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Gold schenkt die Eitelkeit, der rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft und die Liebe schenken Blumen. Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.
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Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
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Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.
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German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
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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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A love that dies has never lived.
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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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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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