Franz Grillparzer Quotes

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

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  Sun, Lightning, Genius

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

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  Modern, Courses, Humanism

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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  Distance, Flower, Past

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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.

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  Goal, Humanity, Progress

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

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  Energy, Ruthlessness, Disregard

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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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• 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.

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  Wife, Infidelity, Honor

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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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• History is the zoology of the human race.

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  Race, History, Zoology

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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.

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  Real, Self, Practice

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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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• The graceful flowers of innocence are more valuable than the laurel crown of fame.

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  Flower, Simplicity, Crowns

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• A love that dies has never lived.

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  Love, Death, Dying

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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.

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  Inspirational, Music, People

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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.

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  Profound, Simplicity, Achievement

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