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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
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.
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Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
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If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.
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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.
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The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
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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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Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference.
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Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.
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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
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When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.
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Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.
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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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