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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.

Franz Grillparzer

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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
Sin
Keep
Castrate
Sinning
Proclaim
Chastity
Hurry

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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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Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.
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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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