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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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 look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
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This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.
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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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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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A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.
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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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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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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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