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As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
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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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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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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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As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
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Gold schenkt die Eitelkeit, der rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft und die Liebe schenken Blumen. Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.
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What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.
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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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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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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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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).
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Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
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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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The real genres: good and bad.
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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.
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