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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
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.
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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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There is one privilege we'll never lose currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.
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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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A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
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The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
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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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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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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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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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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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