Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
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Franz Grillparzer
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About Franz Grillparzer
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer was an Austrian writer who was considered to be the leading Austrian dramatist of the 19th century. His plays were and are frequently performed at the Burgtheater in Vienna. He also wrote the oration for his longtime friend Ludwig van Beethoven's funeral, as well as the epitaph for his friend Franz Schubert.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Franz GrillparzerGenius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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.
Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
Prose talks and poetry sings.
Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.
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Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.