Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, peerless creature of her hive, is surrounded by lowly drones to please her, whereas the workers produce honey, the same way is the one who sits on the throne an equal only to himself, and no one's companion.
Franz GrillparzerChristianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a certain choleric vehemence, the heathen Greeks may well be called happy optimists.
Franz GrillparzerDo not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
Franz GrillparzerMan will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
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