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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
Politician
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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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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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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A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.
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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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Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
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The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.
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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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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 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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A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
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Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.
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A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.
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If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.
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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?
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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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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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