Franz Grillparzer Quotes

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• Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Sun, Lightning, Genius

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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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  Courage, Fear, Needs

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• Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.

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  Skills, Two, Use

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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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  Beautiful, Moon, Light

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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.

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  Needs, Helping, Opinion

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• The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.

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  Modern, Courses, Humanism

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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.

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  Past, Adults, Youth

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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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  Mother, Home, Son

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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.

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  Beautiful, Book, Together

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• Freedom requires guns.

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  Gun

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• Trying to conceal a crime is like burying a seed in the ground.

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  Trying, Crime, Burying

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• He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.

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  Smart, People, Intelligence

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• Why do villains have so much influence? Because the honest people are terribly dense.

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  Honesty, Power, People

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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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  Men, Appreciate, Different

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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

  Goal, Humanity, Progress

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• I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

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  Pride, Eminence, Insignificance

  "Libussa". Play by Franz Grillparzer. Act 2, 1848.

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• A love that dies has never lived.

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  Love, Death, Dying

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• Disregard for the consequences and for right and wrong nowadays passes as energy.

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  Energy, Ruthlessness, Disregard

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• Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind.

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  Climbing, Iron, Mind

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• Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.

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  Love, Wise, Women

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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.

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  Deception, Lost, Torture

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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.

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  Lying, Reality, Firsts

  "Rule of Life", 1815.

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• History is the zoology of the human race.

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  Race, History, Zoology

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• No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

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  People, Causes, Caricatures

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• A person who looks different all the time frightens me. Only one animal changes its skin: the snake.

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  Animal, Snakes, Skins

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