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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
Politician
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Simplicity
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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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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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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
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The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.
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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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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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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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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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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.
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How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
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German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
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The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!
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Freedom requires guns.
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The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.
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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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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?
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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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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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