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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
Honor
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Men
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Woe
Otherwise
Remains
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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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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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There is one privilege we'll never lose currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.
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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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Freedom requires guns.
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Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.
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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
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Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.
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The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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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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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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Servants honor their master by their service.
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Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
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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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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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