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The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.

Franz Grillparzer

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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
Goodness
Please
Doe
Thing
Good
Always
Pleases

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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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Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
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What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.
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Ideas are not thoughts the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
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An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.
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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
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You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?
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A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
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Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun--the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh.
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Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.
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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.
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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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Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.
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Servants honor their master by their service.
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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
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This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.
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How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.
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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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