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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
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
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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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What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.
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If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.
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You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?
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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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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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Servants honor their master by their service.
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Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?
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The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.
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When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.
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I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
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An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.
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The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
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Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
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The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.
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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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Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
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