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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

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
Mimicry
Hostility
Crowds
Character
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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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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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German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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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 early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.
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Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
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The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.
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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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Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.
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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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Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
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No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.
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Ideas are not thoughts the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
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Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?
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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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The real genres: good and bad.
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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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