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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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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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A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
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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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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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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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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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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
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Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.
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No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.
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The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.
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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 took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.
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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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