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A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.
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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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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What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.
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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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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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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
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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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You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?
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Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.
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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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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.
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Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.
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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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A love that dies has never lived.
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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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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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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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