“Only the pure in the heart can make a good soup.”
Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770–1827) German Romantic composer
Original: (de) Nur das Reine im Herzen kann eine gute Suppe machen.
“Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup.”
To Mme. Streicher, in 1817, or 1818, after having dismissed an otherwise good housekeeper because she had told a falsehood to spare his feelings. in Beethoven: the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words http://www.fullbooks.com/Beethoven-the-Man-and-the-Artist-as-Revealed2.html by Ludwig van Beethoven, edited by Friedrich Kerst <br class="br">Attributed <br class="br">Variant: Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.
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