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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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An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.
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The real genres: good and bad.
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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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Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?
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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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Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
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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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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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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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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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Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.
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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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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
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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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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand the natural, they did not have to be artificial in order to be original (which every artist aspires to be).
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The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!
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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
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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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