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Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.
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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I understand the phrase Honor the Women all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.
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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
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Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.
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My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.
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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.
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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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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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I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course.
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In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.
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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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Genius resembles a bell in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.
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Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
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Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.
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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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In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
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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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