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Servants honor their master by their service.

Franz Grillparzer

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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
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What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.
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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
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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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My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.
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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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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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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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The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.
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A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
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Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.
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Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.
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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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Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference.
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The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
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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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