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Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.
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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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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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.
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I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course.
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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.
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Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.
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Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
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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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Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.
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Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!
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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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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.
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Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.
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How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
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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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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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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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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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