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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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How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives.
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The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.
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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
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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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Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.
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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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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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Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.
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I understand the phrase Honor the Women all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.
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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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A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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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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Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
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Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.
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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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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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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.
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