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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
Playwright
Poet
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Soon
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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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I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.
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Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.
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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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A love that dies has never lived.
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You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?
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The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.
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A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.
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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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The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.
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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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Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.
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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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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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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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