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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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Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one. — 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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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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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom! — 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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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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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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The noble woman is half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women. — 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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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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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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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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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson. — 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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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream! — 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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What is the use of aesthetics if they can neither teach how to produce beauty nor how to appreciate it in good taste? It exists because it behooves rational human beings to provide reasons for their actions and assessments. Even if aesthetics are not the mathematics of beauty, they are the proof of the calculation. — 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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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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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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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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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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German diligence is actually endurance. — 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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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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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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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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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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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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The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please. — 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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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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Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness. — 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Pity, but never love bestows kind words upon the slave. — 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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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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The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician. — Franz Grillparzer

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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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What raises great poetry above all else
it is the entire person and also the entire world. — 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Disregard for the consequences and for right and wrong nowadays passes as energy. — Franz Grillparzer

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Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability. — 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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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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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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I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels. — Franz Grillparzer

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In the arts, foolhardiness is always harmful; even worse, however, is clumsiness. — 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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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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The real genres: good and bad. — Franz Grillparzer

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Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers. — 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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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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In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there. — 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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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one. — 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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The state has no religion for the simple reason that it has each and everyone. — 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills. — Franz Grillparzer

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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty. — 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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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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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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Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess
there is something more dashing about a man. — 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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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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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 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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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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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all. — Franz Grillparzer

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Transcendence: that which transcends experience. — 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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How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight. — 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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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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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