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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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Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.
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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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Gold schenkt die Eitelkeit, der rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft und die Liebe schenken Blumen. Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.
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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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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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Genius resembles a bell in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.
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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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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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