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Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.

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
Foolish
Danger
Dangerous
Wise
Since
Woman
Women
Love
Folly

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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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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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No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.
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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.
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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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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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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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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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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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Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.
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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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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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Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
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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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