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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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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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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.
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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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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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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
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The real genres: good and bad.
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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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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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Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.
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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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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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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
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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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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.
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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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