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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
Someone
Gathers
Needs
Reluctant
Necessary
Whose
Courage
Fear
Often
Proportionate
Ends
Insolence
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The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.
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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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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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Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.
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The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.
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Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.
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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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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 art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.
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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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Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
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