Franz Grillparzer Quotes - Page 8

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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.

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  Sky, People, Shining

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• I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.

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  Women, Rigidity, Disgusting

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• Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.

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  Sin, Chastity, Sinning

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• Turning popular opinion upside down does not make an original.

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  Doe, Originality, Opinion

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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.

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  Grieving, Needs, Austria

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• Gold schenkt die Eitelkeit, der rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft und die Liebe schenken Blumen. Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.

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  Flower, Pride, Love And Friendship

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• What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.

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  Character, Poetry, World

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• Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink.

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  Food, Prose And Poetry, Different

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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).

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  Art, Order, Poetry

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• The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.

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  Poetry, Poetic, Poet

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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.

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  Poetry, Criticism, Tailors

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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.

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  War, Cutting, Knives

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• The state has no religion for the simple reason that it has each and everyone.

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  Simple, Religion, Reason

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• A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.

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  Healing, Ignorance, Stupidity

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• Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals.

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  Loneliness, Excellence, Property

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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.

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  Country, Animal, Intelligent

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• It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.

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  Germany, Emotion, Objects

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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.

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  Common Sense, Natural, Wit

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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.

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  Life, Art, Perfection

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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.

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  Queens, Power, Honey

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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.

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  Strength, Majesty, Clamor

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• Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.

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  Moving, Greatness

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• The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.

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  Diplomats, Politician, Excellent

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• Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it.

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  Tasks, Metaphysics, Empiricism

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• Nothing genuinely historical was ever lost in this country. For this reason we have two ruling parties: villains and fools.

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  Country, Party, Government

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