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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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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Politician
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.
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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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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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Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.
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Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.
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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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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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The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.
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The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
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As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.
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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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When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.
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I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.
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Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
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Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.
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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
Franz Grillparzer
A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
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