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Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
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Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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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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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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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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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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Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
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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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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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