“There are and always will be thousands of princes, but there is only one Beethoven!”
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Ludwig Van Beethoven 43
German Romantic composer 1770–1827Related quotes
“The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad.”
"Refutation of Helvétius" (written 1773-76, published 1875)
Context: The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid.
The Heretic (1968)
Context: No man — prince, peasant, pope, — has all the light, who says else is a mountebank. I claim no private lien on truth, only a liberty to seek it, prove it in debate, and to be wrong a thousand times to reach a single rightness. It is that liberty they fear. They want us to be driven to God like sheep, not running to him like lovers, shouting joy!
“There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand different versions.”
Il n'y a qu'une sorte d'amour, mais il y en a mille différentes copies.
Maxim 74.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
Watership Down (1972)
The Story of Islamic Imperialism in India (1994)
“Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.”
