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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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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 love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
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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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A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
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Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun--the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh.
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Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
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Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.
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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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If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.
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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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I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
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Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
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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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Ideas are not thoughts the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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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 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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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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Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.
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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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