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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
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.
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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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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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A love that dies has never lived.
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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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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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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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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.
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In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.
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If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.
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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.
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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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The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!
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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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