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Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.

Franz Grillparzer

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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
Fathers
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Return
Cities
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Become
Goethe
Men
Origins

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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
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If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.
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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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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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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
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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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How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
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A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
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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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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.
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Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger
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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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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.
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I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course.
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As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
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Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?
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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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