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The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me unfolds at thesame time. The hearts of how many heroes and poets may have been set on fire by Plutarch's biographies which now inspire me with their own and with borrowed flames!
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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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A love that dies has never lived.
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Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun--the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh.
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Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.
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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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A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
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Ideas are not thoughts the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
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Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!
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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
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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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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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Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger
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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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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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The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!
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Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.
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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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