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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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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Politician
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.
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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'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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A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.
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A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.
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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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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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Ideas are not thoughts the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
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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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Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
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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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Genius resembles a bell in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.
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Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
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Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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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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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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