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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.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Gold schenkt die Eitelkeit, der rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft und die Liebe schenken Blumen. Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.
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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.
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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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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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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
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Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.
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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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The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.
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The real genres: good and bad.
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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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Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.
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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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Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.
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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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Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand the natural, they did not have to be artificial in order to be original (which every artist aspires to be).
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Genius resembles a bell in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.
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The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.
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