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Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.
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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Goethe
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Servants honor their master by their service.
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Ideas are not thoughts the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
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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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Freedom requires guns.
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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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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.
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A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.
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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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Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.
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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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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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Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
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Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.
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The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
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A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.
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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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The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!
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The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.
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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.
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