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I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels.

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Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.

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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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When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental—far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.

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Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?

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We must have religion for religion's sake, morality for morality's sake, as with art for art's sake…the beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
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Franz Grillparzer

Franz Grillparzer
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Born: January 15, 1791
Died: January 21, 1872 (aged 81)
Bio: Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer was an Austrian writer who is chiefly known for his dramas. He also wrote the oration for Ludwig van Beethoven's funeral.
Known for:
  1. Das Goldene Vliess (1822)
  2. Sappho: A Tragedy in Five Acts (1827)
  3. Hero and Leander
  4. The Poor Fiddler

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