Franz Grillparzer Quotes - Page 3

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• Pity, but never love bestows kind words upon the slave.

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  Love, Slavery, Kind

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• Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?

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  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Shining

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• Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.

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  Age, Hours, Decline

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• What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.

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  Success, Education, Children

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• Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.

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  Life, Death, Men

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• The real genres: good and bad.

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  Real, Criticism, Quality

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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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  Love, Sight, Eagles

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• Transcendence: that which transcends experience.

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  Experience, Transcendence

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• Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.

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  Views, Insanity, Insane

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• The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.

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  Doe, Goodness, Good Things

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• I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination--it would turn into a masterpiece.

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  Writing, Imagination, Tragedy

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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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  Success, Jobs, Order

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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.

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  Life, Art, Clay

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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.

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  Country, Austria, Wealth

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• To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

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  Humility, Pride, Men

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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.

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  Progress, Forests, Mankind

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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.

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  Judging, Needs, Silent

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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.

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  Home, Uprising, Two

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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.

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  Fear, Grief, Enemy

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• Right and proof are two crutches for everything bent and crooked that limps along.

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  Rights, Two, Proof

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• To enlist the support of the people and of parliament, you only have to propose a profitable villainy.

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  People, Support, Prussia

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• Perhaps the most embarrassing experience is being caught at a lie by a simpleton who sneers at our asinine cleverness.

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  Lying, Embarrassing, Embarrassment

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• When receiving an order, many servants repeat their "yes" numerous times, especially the lazy ones.

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  Time, Order, Lazy

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• Whoever considers morality the main objective of human existence, seems to me like a person who defines the purpose of a clock asnot going wrong. The first objective for a clock, is, however, that it does run; not going wrong is an additional regulative function. If not a watch's greatest accomplishment were not going wrong, unwound watches might be the best.

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  Running, Accomplishment, Priorities

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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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  Thinking, Honor, Thieves

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