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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
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Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Servants honor their master by their service.
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Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
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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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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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Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.
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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.
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Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.
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Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?
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German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
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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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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.
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A love that dies has never lived.
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The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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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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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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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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