Quotation by

Ludwig van Beethoven

Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

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Beethoven is saying that teaching children to be good and moral is what truly brings happiness, rather than giving them money. He emphasizes this based on what he has personally learned in his life.

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