Your love makes me at once the happiest and the unhappiest of men

Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

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.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.

I can live only wholly with you or not at all