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Ludwig Van Beethoven Quotes

"Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience."

"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy."

"Friends applaud, the comedy is over."

"What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven."

"Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?"

"Only the pure in heart can make a good soup."

"Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours."

"Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors."

"Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth."

"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."

"The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, "Thus far and no farther.""

"Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life."

"Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman."

"Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup."

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