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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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Freedom requires guns.
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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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If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.
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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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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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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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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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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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Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.
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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.
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As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
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Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
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The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
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Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun--the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh.
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Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.
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The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.
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A love that dies has never lived.
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The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.
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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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