Ludwig van Beethoven

Artists are fiery; they do not weep!

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

Fate gave to man the courage of endurance.

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

I wish you all the good and charm that life can offer. Think of me kindly, and rest assured that no one would more rejoice to hear of your happiness.

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

I wish you music to help with the burdens of life, and to help you release your happiness to others.

I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.

Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life... the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings.

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

Friends applaud, the comedy is finished.

I despise a world which does not feel that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.

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

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

Let every man do that which is right, strive with all his might towards the goal which can never be obtained, develop to the last breath the gifts with which the gracious Creator has endowed him, and never cease to learn. For life is short, art eternal.

The immortal god of harmony.

Muss es sein? Es muss sein.