Recommend virtue to your children, that alone - not wealth - can give happiness. It upholds in adversity and the thought of it and my art prevents me from putting an end to my life.
Source: In Beethoven: Letters, Journals, and Conversations, 1960.
-- Ludwig van Beethoven, (Dec 16 1770-1827), German composer; He was the dominant figure between the Classical and Romantic eras who composed his Ninth Symphony when totally deaf.