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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
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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A love that dies has never lived.
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Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.
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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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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
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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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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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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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Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me unfolds at thesame time. The hearts of how many heroes and poets may have been set on fire by Plutarch's biographies which now inspire me with their own and with borrowed flames!
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German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
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If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.
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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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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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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
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The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.
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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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Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
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