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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.
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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Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
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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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Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand the natural, they did not have to be artificial in order to be original (which every artist aspires to be).
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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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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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Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.
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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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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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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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Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
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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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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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Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
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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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