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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
Politician
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
Desire
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Coercion
Duty
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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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Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me unfolds at thesame time. The hearts of how many heroes and poets may have been set on fire by Plutarch's biographies which now inspire me with their own and with borrowed flames!
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I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love I have learned to lose and to resign myself.
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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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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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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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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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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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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.
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Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
Franz Grillparzer
It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
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What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.
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German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
Franz Grillparzer
Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
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