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Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.
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Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me unfolds at thesame time. The hearts of how many heroes and poets may have been set on fire by Plutarch's biographies which now inspire me with their own and with borrowed flames!
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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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A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.
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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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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 old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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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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When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.
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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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