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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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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
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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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If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.
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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.
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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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Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
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A love that dies has never lived.
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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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Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.
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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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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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Servants honor their master by their service.
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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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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.
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A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.
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In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.
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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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Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
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