What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.
你是什么呢？你只是你偶然的出生（公爵）；我是什么呢，我全靠我自己。会有一千个公爵产生，却只会有一个贝多芬。

——Ludwig van Beethoven
——贝多芬（拒绝为入侵维也纳的军官演奏）