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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
Poet
Politician
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
Blindness
Blind
Sight
Young
Love
Keener
Eagle
Eagles

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Servants honor their master by their service.
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Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
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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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Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.
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Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.
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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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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
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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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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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In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.
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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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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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In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.
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This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.
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Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
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In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
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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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