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In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
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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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The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.
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Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.
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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.
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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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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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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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Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.
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The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.
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I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
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