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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
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
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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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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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Genius resembles a bell in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.
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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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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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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.
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Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
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Gold schenkt die Eitelkeit, der rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft und die Liebe schenken Blumen. Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.
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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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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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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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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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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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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love I have learned to lose and to resign myself.
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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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