1. Life is hard. For those who are not willing to settle for mediocrity, it is an endless battle. It is often miserable, without brilliance, without happiness, and is fought in loneliness and silence. .

2. What I call a hero is not a person who dominates with the power of his thoughts, but a person who is great only by his heart.

3. Beethoven and Tolstoy, they are both geniuses, but they are even more heroes - they are either suffering from illness, or due to tragic experiences, or due to inner confusion and contradictions , or a combination of the three. This deep distress almost suffocated their breathing and destroyed their reason. However, with their love for mankind and their faith in mankind, they persisted in the arduous journey. Beethoven He exchanged pain for joy and turned it into immortal music. Michaelangelo used the blood of his life to sculpt a masterpiece that future generations must look up to see. Tolstoy believed that "when all people have achieved happiness, Happiness only exists in this world."

4. Beethoven and Goethe took a walk together and met the princes and nobles on the way back. When they saw him from a distance, Goethe broke free from Beethoven's arm and stood on the side of the road, bending deeply and holding his hat in his hand, waiting for the royal family members to pass by. But Beethoven was alone saying what he wanted to say to Goethe. Seeing Goethe's look, Beethoven pressed his hat, buttoned his coat, and ran straight into the densest crowd with his hands behind his back. The prince and his ministers gathered closely, Prince Rudolf took off his hat to Beethoven, and the queen greeted him. Those ministers also knew him. Beethoven deliberately watched this group of people passing in front of Goethe. Afterwards, Beethoven even taught Goethe a lesson without ceremony. This made Goethe, who was then Privy Councilor to the Grand Duke of Weimar, never able to forgive him, but Beethoven did not take it seriously.

5. Do your best to do good, love freedom above all else, and never deceive the truth even for the sake of the throne.

6. What victory can be compared with this victory? On what day has the sunshine ever achieved the glory of this superhuman effort? Has this triumph ever been attained by the soul? An unfortunate person, poor, disabled, lonely, a person caused by pain, the world does not give him joy, but he creates joy to give to the world! He used his suffering to create joy, as he explained with that heroic saying-that can sum up his life and become the motto of all heroic souls:

"Happiness in exchange for pain" . ”

7. Dusk is approaching, and thunderstorms are brewing. Then came the heavy clouds, full of lightning, dyeing the night black, carrying strong wind and rain. That was the beginning of the "Ninth Symphony". -Suddenly, when the wind and rain are fierce, the darkness cracks, the night is driven away from the sky, and due to the power of will, the clarity of the day is returned to us.

8. Without great personality, there will be no great people, not even great artists, great actors; all are just empty idols, matching the despicable masses; time will destroy them Destroy together. What does success or failure matter? The main thing is to be great, not to appear great.

Exquisite and translucent, the nine-curved corridor with wings spread in the air

Interesting and duplicitous, but not top-heavy

Poetry and painting come together to be dizzying

Strange and strange shapes towering into the clouds

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Pleasantly winding and colorful