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The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.

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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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Freedom requires guns.
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Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.
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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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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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Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
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When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.
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Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger
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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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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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A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.
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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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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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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
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Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?
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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
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Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.
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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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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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Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
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