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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
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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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Ideas are not thoughts the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
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The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.
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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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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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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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I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
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Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.
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Freedom requires guns.
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My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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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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Gold schenkt die Eitelkeit, der rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft und die Liebe schenken Blumen. Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.
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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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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
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