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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
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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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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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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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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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Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
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People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.
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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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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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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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Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?
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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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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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The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.
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As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
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Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.
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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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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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