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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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Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
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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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Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
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If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.
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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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Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.
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