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A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
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 likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.
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Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
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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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Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.
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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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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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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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