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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.
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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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.
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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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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun--the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh.
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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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Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
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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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How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.
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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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Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
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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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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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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
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The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
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