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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.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.
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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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Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
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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 old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.
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Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.
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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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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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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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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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Servants honor their master by their service.
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How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
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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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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.
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