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How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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I understand the phrase Honor the Women all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.
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The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.
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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 fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.
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Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!
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If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.
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The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.
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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.
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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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