(Copied into his Diary, 1815.)
307. “Fate gave man the courage of endurance.”
(Diary, 1814.)
308.
“Portia—How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”
(Marked in his copy of Shakespeare’s “Merchant of Venice.”)
309.
“And on the day that one becomes a
slave,
The Thunderer, Jove, takes half his
worth away.”—Homer.
(“The Odyssey” [Bryant’s translation], Book XVII, 392-393. Marked by
Beethoven.)
310.