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Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.
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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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.
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Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.
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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.
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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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A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
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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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The real genres: good and bad.
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Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.
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The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
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Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.
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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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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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My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.
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