The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
Franz GrillparzerI know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.
Franz GrillparzerNo shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.
Franz GrillparzerJust 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 Grillparzer