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Biography - Ludwig van Beethoven:

German composer and pianist.
Born: 1770 - Died: 1827
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

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



Translation

Translation

(German, French)



German
Empfehlt Euren Kindern Tugend: sie nur allein kann glücklich machen, nicht Geld; ich spreche aus Erfahrung.

French
Recommandez la vertu à vos enfants, elle seule, et non l'argent, peut les rendre heureux.




See also 

See also...



Silver is worth less than gold, gold less than virtue.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

There is no happiness without courage, nor virtue without struggle.




Quotes for: happiness


Quotes

Quotes about happiness:


I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.





Happiness is sometimes hidden in the unknown.





The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.





Happiness is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves and impossible to find it elsewhere.





A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.





Nothing is ever finished ; only a little happiness is needed for everything to begin again.











Quotes for: virtue


Quotes

Quotes about virtue:


The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.





All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.





The virtues lose themselves in interest as the rivers are lost in the sea.





Humility is not a virtue; that is, it does not arise from reason.





Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.





'No soul is willing to be robbed of truth', he says. The same holds of justice, too, of temperance, of kindness, and the like. It is most necessary to remember this continually, for thus you will be more gentle to all men.











Quotes

Quotes for: child


All grown-ups were once children (but only few of them remember it).





We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.
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If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.





Mature manhood: that means to have rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play.





Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.





Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.











Quotes

Ludwig van Beethoven also said...


Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.





Melody gives a sensible existence to poetry.





Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.





Blessed is he who has overcome all passions and then proceeds energetically to perform his duties under all circumstances careless of success! Let the motive lie in the deed, not in the outcome.





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





Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!












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