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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
Poet
Politician
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
Greatness
Moving
Comes
Schiller
Goethe
Upward
Moves

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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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If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.
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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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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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Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
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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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The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.
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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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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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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.
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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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Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.
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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
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I understand the phrase Honor the Women all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.
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Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.
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