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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
Crowds
Character
Made
Mimicry
Hostility

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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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Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
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The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.
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The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
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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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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
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A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.
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The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
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Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.
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The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
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What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.
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Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference.
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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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Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.
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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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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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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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I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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