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It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
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Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.
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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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If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.
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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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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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Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
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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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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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Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.
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Freedom requires guns.
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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
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In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
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German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
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I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.
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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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A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
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There is one privilege we'll never lose currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.
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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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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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