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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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Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.
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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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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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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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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
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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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Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand the natural, they did not have to be artificial in order to be original (which every artist aspires to be).
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Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.
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German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
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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 old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.
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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.
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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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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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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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Freedom requires guns.
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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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