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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. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one. -- Franz Grillparzer
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You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest thing in the world is making a decision. -- Franz Grillparzer
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I cannot be exacting because I respect myself. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Distinctly different as a child, as an adolescent, in his prime and in his old age, man considers himself as one, not because he acts, but because he knows. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Turning popular opinion upside down does not make an original. -- Franz Grillparzer
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What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well. -- Franz Grillparzer
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I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination
it would turn into a masterpiece. -- Franz 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. -- Franz Grillparzer
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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. -- Franz Grillparzer
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It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak. -- Franz Grillparzer
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From a distance the rushing of the torrent delights and uplifts us, but it rocks us in a flimsy boat, we are overwhelmed by despair. The same applies to danger. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Servants honor their master by their service. -- Franz Grillparzer
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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. -- Franz Grillparzer
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German diligence is actually endurance. -- Franz Grillparzer
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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. -- Franz Grillparzer
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I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, peerless creature of her hive, is surrounded by lowly drones to please her, whereas the workers produce honey, the same way is the one who sits on the throne an equal only to himself, and no one's companion. -- Franz Grillparzer
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No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs. -- Franz Grillparzer
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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. -- Franz Grillparzer
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The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Beauty satisfies the senses completely and at the same time uplifts the soul. That which gratifies the senses is pleasant, and that which uplifts the soul without being sensual in the least is good, true, right, anything you like, but not beautiful. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Lap-dogs and blood-hounds enjoy the greatest respect at court; house-dogs and no dogs at all are not even considered. -- Franz Grillparzer
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How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight. -- Franz Grillparzer
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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother. -- Franz Grillparzer
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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas. -- Franz Grillparzer
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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? -- Franz Grillparzer
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Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light. -- Franz Grillparzer
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I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself. -- Franz Grillparzer
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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? -- Franz Grillparzer
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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Never expect any recognition here
the system prohibits it. The cross is not affixed to the genius, no, the genius is affixed to the cross. -- Franz Grillparzer
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A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Strength, strength alone, is honorable, the German nation clamors in its majesty. But since it is hard to muster strength so suddenly, they have to make do with boorishness. -- Franz Grillparzer
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If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked. -- Franz Grillparzer
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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him! -- Franz Grillparzer
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The way in which modern German poetry follows theories reminds me of pupils who, scolded by their teacher for their insubordination, justify themselves by saying that they invented new rules of propriety according to which they are quite well- behaved. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before. -- Franz Grillparzer
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The plot! The plot! What kind of plot could a poet possibly provide that is not surpassed by the thinking, feeling reader? Form alone is divine. -- Franz Grillparzer
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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! -- Franz Grillparzer
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Women, children, Tyroleans and preachers want to create a new kingdom of God, but the God of their kingdom looks like women, children, preachers, and Tyrolians. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates. -- Franz Grillparzer
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The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Finally and long overdue, your people, oppressed and disgraced by hatred and maliciousness, have achieved justice: now you enjoy full citizen's rights, but you'll remain Jews nonetheless. -- Franz Grillparzer
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I understand the phrase "Honor the Women" all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Even with limited intelligence, knowing oneself is not as difficult as some say, but to act according to what one has realized about oneself in real life is as difficult as practicing anything else, compared to theory. -- Franz Grillparzer
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When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible. -- Franz Grillparzer
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My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly. -- Franz Grillparzer
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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. -- Franz Grillparzer
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A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief. -- Franz Grillparzer
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The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference. -- Franz Grillparzer
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It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is. -- Franz Grillparzer
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No matter which word it is, when I pronounce repeatedly, it ends up sounding utterly ridiculous and meaningless to me. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability. -- Franz Grillparzer
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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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Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a certain choleric vehemence, the heathen Greeks may well be called happy optimists. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Let the will embrace the highest ideals freely and with infinite strength, but let action first take hold of what lies closest. -- Franz Grillparzer
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A love that dies has never lived. -- Franz Grillparzer
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In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich. -- Franz Grillparzer
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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. -- Franz Grillparzer
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To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness. -- Franz Grillparzer
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The sun of a prince's good graces resembles that in the skies in that it shines most kindly upon the blackest people. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass. -- Franz Grillparzer
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People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them. -- Franz Grillparzer
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A heart that overflows may seek out merrymaking and boisterous festivities to quietly rejoice, unnoticed amidst the reveling crowds. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers. -- Franz Grillparzer
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At certain times, men regard poetry merely as a bright flame, but to women it was, and always will be, a warm fire. -- Franz Grillparzer
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What's the meaning of all the pious clamor, condemning cocks and hens? Those who have no teeth are the greatest meat-haters. -- Franz Grillparzer
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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. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess
there is something more dashing about a man. -- Franz Grillparzer
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The noble woman is half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object? -- Franz Grillparzer
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What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them? It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Right and proof are two crutches for everything bent and crooked that limps along. -- Franz Grillparzer
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You say I'm small? I certainly can relate, although it is a matter of perspective. The distance is deceptive, my friend, you standtoo low. -- Franz Grillparzer
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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). -- Franz Grillparzer
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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one. -- Franz Grillparzer
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No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require. -- Franz Grillparzer
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In the arts, foolhardiness is always harmful; even worse, however, is clumsiness. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts! -- Franz Grillparzer
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Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and small. -- Franz Grillparzer
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In the long run, only woman remains true to mankind's foremost mission. Whatever she achieves, she achieves through herself, and alone. Man's master is the
public. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Do you think that it is possible to have a mere taste of commonness? Either one hates it or makes common cause with it. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape. -- Franz Grillparzer
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I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed. -- Franz Grillparzer
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A man may welcome his beloved with circumstance, but a woman's love and her concern for his well-being are discreet. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened. -- Franz Grillparzer
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The most irascible person is most likely to become apathetic in dangerous situations. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun. -- Franz Grillparzer
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The real genres: good and bad. -- Franz Grillparzer
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How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest. -- Franz Grillparzer
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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short. -- Franz Grillparzer
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As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present. -- Franz Grillparzer
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History is the zoology of the human race. -- Franz Grillparzer
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A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide. -- Franz 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. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Trying to conceal a crime is like burying a seed in the ground. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am. -- Franz Grillparzer
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The prince exults whomever he selects as his consort, but the queen, rather than elevating the subject of her choice, humiliates him as a man. By all that is right, a man is not intended to be the husband of his wife, but a woman is to be her husband's wife. -- Franz Grillparzer
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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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Nothing genuinely historical was ever lost in this country. For this reason we have two ruling parties: villains and fools. -- Franz Grillparzer
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There is one privilege we'll never lose; currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident. -- Franz Grillparzer
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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. -- Franz Grillparzer
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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. -- Franz Grillparzer
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The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Perhaps the most embarrassing experience is being caught at a lie by a simpleton who sneers at our asinine cleverness. -- Franz Grillparzer
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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. -- Franz Grillparzer
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The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Captivating the spirit of the age is a matter of great talent; being swept away by it characterizes an average mind. The two are as different from one another as activity and passivity. -- Franz Grillparzer
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The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger -- Franz Grillparzer
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Chance arrives unannounced. It emerges, and when it leaves, we are lucky if the changes it has produced are only external. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Feeling and thinking are actually the blind man who carries the lame. -- Franz Grillparzer
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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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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. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Prose talks and poetry sings. -- Franz Grillparzer
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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. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Compilers resemble gluttonous eaters who devour excessive quantities of healthy food just to excrete them as refuse. -- Franz Grillparzer
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The state has no religion for the simple reason that it has each and everyone. -- Franz Grillparzer
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The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance; the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence. -- Franz Grillparzer
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I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Love! Hate! Is there no third? -- Franz Grillparzer
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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! -- Franz Grillparzer
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Who could deny that our Austria is richer than any other country? As the saying goes: We have money like manure. -- Franz Grillparzer
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They are miserly, the princes of Austria, you need not grieve about it; they may not donate anything, but they allow themselves tobe fleeced, the good lords. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom! -- Franz Grillparzer
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Transcendence: that which transcends experience. -- Franz Grillparzer
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When receiving an order, many servants repeat their "yes" numerous times, especially the lazy ones. -- Franz Grillparzer
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No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Uneducated people are unfortunate in that they do grasp complex issues, educated people, on the other hand, often do not understand simplicity, which is a far greater misfortune. -- Franz Grillparzer
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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. -- Franz Grillparzer
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The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals. -- Franz Grillparzer
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To enlist the support of the people and of parliament, you only have to propose a profitable villainy. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow. -- Franz Grillparzer
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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past. -- Franz Grillparzer
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The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures. -- Franz Grillparzer
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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. -- Franz Grillparzer
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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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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. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers. -- Franz Grillparzer
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A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces. -- Franz Grillparzer
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The first indication of a young person's growing smarter is that he no longer understands the things which he used to consider quite intelligible and self-evident. -- Franz Grillparzer
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If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think. -- Franz Grillparzer
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What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is? -- Franz Grillparzer
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A person who looks different all the time frightens me. Only one animal changes its skin: the snake. -- Franz Grillparzer
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In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal. -- Franz Grillparzer
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In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Who claims that the heathen's view of the world is incorrect? Life gives you nothing! It is ruled by false gods! Nothing remains true to you but your own self; provided you remain true to it. -- Franz Grillparzer
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As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Disregard for the consequences and for right and wrong nowadays passes as energy. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction. -- Franz Grillparzer
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A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex. -- Franz Grillparzer
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You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free
but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning? -- Franz Grillparzer
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Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship. -- Franz Grillparzer
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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. -- Franz Grillparzer
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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. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Pity, but never love bestows kind words upon the slave. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works. -- Franz Grillparzer
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The graceful flowers of innocence are more valuable than the laurel crown of fame. -- Franz Grillparzer
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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility. -- Franz Grillparzer
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I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless. -- Franz Grillparzer
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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son. -- Franz Grillparzer
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North and West have always vied for power and territory, but their recent competition as to which one is more insidious of the twohas been more peaceful. -- Franz Grillparzer
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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit; it is the doctor, the bed, the potion. -- Franz Grillparzer
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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic. -- Franz Grillparzer
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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. -- Franz Grillparzer
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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream! -- Franz Grillparzer
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What raises great poetry above all else
it is the entire person and also the entire world. -- Franz Grillparzer
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A pious woman's neighbor, a philanthropist's child, a liberal's servant
these three have a hard life. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink. -- Franz Grillparzer
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When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental - far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns. -- Franz Grillparzer
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The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician. -- Franz Grillparzer
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A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills. -- Franz Grillparzer
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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson. -- Franz Grillparzer
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It is good insofar as it is not evil. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir; a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind. -- Franz Grillparzer
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It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect. The human being disappears to the same degree as the individual emerges. -- Franz Grillparzer
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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. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Two soldiers and a villain are enough to blow up the rights of the citizens. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains. -- Franz Grillparzer
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Why do villains have so much influence? Because the honest people are terribly dense. -- Franz Grillparzer