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Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
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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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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Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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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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A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
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I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.
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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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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 German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.
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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
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In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.
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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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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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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
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