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Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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 flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.
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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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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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Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!
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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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It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.
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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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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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Freedom requires guns.
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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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How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
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Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
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