More from Ludwig van Beethoven

  1. The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'
  2. This [pointing to his head] and this [pointing to his heart] is my nobility.
  3. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
  4. Thus Fate knocks the door.
  5. Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.
  6. To sing a wrong note is insignificant, but to sing without passion is unforgivable.
  7. Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
  8. What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and always will be thousands of princes, but there is only…

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