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How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
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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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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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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Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.
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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
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Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
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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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The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.
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What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.
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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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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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A love that dies has never lived.
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If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.
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The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.
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Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.
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In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.
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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
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Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
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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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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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