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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.

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
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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.
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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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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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It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.
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Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.
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Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.
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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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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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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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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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Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me unfolds at thesame time. The hearts of how many heroes and poets may have been set on fire by Plutarch's biographies which now inspire me with their own and with borrowed flames!
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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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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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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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What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.
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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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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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