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

Recommend to your children to be virtuous, only the virtue can bring us happiness, not the money.

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

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.

Figured Bass (Harmony) and Religion are self-contained things, one should not argue these.

I shall seize fate by the throat.

I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child.