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"As light nourishes plants, wisdom nourishes sages."
"Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech."
"If you were brought up on a poor man's brand of drink and prefer that to this very day then do not pretend you like expensive wine."
"The beginning of wisdom is understanding that life is full of ongoing learning experiences."
"The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having, as he explained once to Lady Agatha, said everything that he had to say before he was thirty."
Explore more quotes by Franz Grillparzer
"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."
"It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is."
"Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave."
"To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet."
"When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience."
"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."
"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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