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In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.
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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There is one privilege we'll never lose currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.
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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
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How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.
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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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A love that dies has never lived.
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A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
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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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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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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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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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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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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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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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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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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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Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
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The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
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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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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
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