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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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How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
Franz Grillparzer
The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.
Franz Grillparzer
A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.
Franz Grillparzer
Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
Franz Grillparzer
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.
Franz Grillparzer
Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.
Franz Grillparzer
Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.
Franz Grillparzer
Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
Franz Grillparzer
Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand the natural, they did not have to be artificial in order to be original (which every artist aspires to be).
Franz Grillparzer
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.
Franz Grillparzer
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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In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.
Franz Grillparzer
In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.
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Freedom requires guns.
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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
Franz Grillparzer
The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
Franz Grillparzer
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.
Franz Grillparzer
The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
Franz Grillparzer
It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.
Franz Grillparzer
