More from Ludwig van Beethoven

  1. Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
  2. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
  3. Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.
  4. The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'
  5. Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
  6. There lies somehing revolutionary in the music.
  7. Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
  8. This [pointing to his head] and this [pointing to his heart] is my nobility.

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