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The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
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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Excellent
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Soon
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Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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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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The real genres: good and bad.
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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.
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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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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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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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Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
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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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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
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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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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
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Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.
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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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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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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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