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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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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.
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Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.
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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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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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No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.
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Gold schenkt die Eitelkeit, der rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft und die Liebe schenken Blumen. Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.
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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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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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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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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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Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
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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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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
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Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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