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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
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
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Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand the natural, they did not have to be artificial in order to be original (which every artist aspires to be).
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Freedom requires guns.
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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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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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In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.
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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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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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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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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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I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.
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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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Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.
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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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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
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