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How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
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Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.
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Genius resembles a bell in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.
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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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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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What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.
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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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Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
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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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Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
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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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