Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.Franz Grillparzer
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.
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To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.
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The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.
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Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
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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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