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Men Quotes by Ludwig van Beethoven
- This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.
- Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.
- 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.
- He that divines the secret of my music is freed from the unhappiness that haunts the whole world of men.
- Men are not only together when they are with each other; even the distant and the dead live with us.
- There is no loftier mission than to approach the Divinity nearer than other men, and to disseminate the divine rays among mankind.
- Oh you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn, or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the…
- Fate gave to man the courage of endurance.
- The vibrations on the air are the breath of God speaking to man's soul. Music is the language of God. We musicians are as close…
- What will be the judgment a century hence concerning the lorded works of our favorite composers today? Inasmuch as nearly everything is subject to the…
- I don't want to know anything about your system of ethics. Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and…
- I love a tree more than a man.
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