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Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
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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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People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.
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Servants honor their master by their service.
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The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.
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I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love I have learned to lose and to resign myself.
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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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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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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.
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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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Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.
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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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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.
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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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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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