293. “How stupidity and wretchedness always go in pairs!”
(Diary, 1817.)
[Beethoven was greatly vexed by his servants.]
294. “Hope nourishes me; it nourishes half the world, and has been my neighbor all my life, else what had become of me!”
(August 11, 1810, to Bettina von Arnim.)
295. “Fortune is round like a globe, hence, naturally, does not always fall on the noblest and best.”
(Vienna, July 29, 1800, to Wegeler.)
296. “Show your power, Fate! We are not our own masters; what is decided must be,—and so be it!”
(Diary, 1818.)
297. “Eternal Providence omnisciently directs the good and evil fortunes of mortal men.”