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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
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Hurry
Sin
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Castrate
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The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
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Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.
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The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.
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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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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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The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.
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Genius resembles a bell in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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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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Servants honor their master by their service.
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What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.
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Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.
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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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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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Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?
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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 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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A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.
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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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