2. what I call a hero is not a man who is strong in thought, but a man who is great by heart. 3. Beethoven and Tolstoy, both of them are geniuses, but they are even more heroes-they are suffering from diseases, suffering tragically, being perplexed and contradictory in their hearts, or a combination of the three. This kind of deep distress almost choked their breath and destroyed their reason, but with their love and confidence in human beings, they persisted in the arduous journey, and Beethoven exchanged pain for joy. Michelangelo used the blood of his life to sculpt a masterpiece that later generations must look up to see. Tolstoy believed that "when all people are happy, there will be happiness in the world."
4. Beethoven and Goethe walked together, and they met princes and nobles on their way back. When they saw it from a distance, Goethe broke away from Beethoven's arm and stood on the side of the road, bent deeply, holding his hat in his hand, waiting for the royal family to pass by. Beethoven, on the other hand, said what he wanted to say to Goethe alone. When he saw Goethe like that, Beethoven pressed his hat, buttoned his coat and ran straight into the densest crowd with his hands behind his back. The prince and his courtiers were in close contact. Prince Rudolph took off his hat to Beethoven and the queen greeted him. Those ministers also know him. Beethoven deliberately watched this group of people pass by in front of Goethe, and afterwards, Beethoven taught Goethe a lesson rudely. This made Goethe, who was then the counsellor of Grand Duke Weimar, never forgive him, but Beethoven did not agree.
5. Do your best to be good, love freedom more than anything else, and never lie to the truth even for the sake of the throne. 6. What victory can be compared with this one? When did the sunshine reach the glory of this superhuman effort? Have you ever won this triumph that the mind has never won? An unfortunate person, poor, disabled, lonely, caused by pain, the world did not give him joy, but he created joy to give it to the world! He used his sufferings to mold joy, as if he explained it with that grandiloquence-it can sum up his life and become the motto of all heroic hearts: "Joy bought with pain." 7. As dusk approaches, thunderstorms are brewing. Then came the heavy clouds, full of lightning, dyed black by the night, carrying heavy wind and rain, which was the beginning of the Ninth Symphony. Suddenly, when the wind and the rain suddenly burst, the darkness cracked, the night was driven away in the sky, and due to the power of will, the clarity of the day was returned to us.
8. Without great personality, there would be no great people, even no great artists and great actors; All are just empty idols, matching the lowly masses; Time will destroy them all. What does success or failure matter? The main thing is to be great, not to appear great.