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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
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.
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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.
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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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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
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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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In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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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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