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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
Goethe
Upward
Moves
Greatness
Moving
Comes
Schiller

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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
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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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Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
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Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?
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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.
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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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I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
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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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People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.
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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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Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.
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Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me unfolds at thesame time. The hearts of how many heroes and poets may have been set on fire by Plutarch's biographies which now inspire me with their own and with borrowed flames!
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Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.
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The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.
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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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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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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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Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.
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