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There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.
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Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.
Jose Marti
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Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.
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A selfish man is a thief.
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One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.
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A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.
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If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.
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To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly.
Jose Marti
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An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.
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Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men.
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Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.
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Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.
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The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you.
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The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women.
Jose Marti
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He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.
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To use for our exclusive benefit what is not ours is theft.
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A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.
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One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve.
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Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.
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But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.
Jose Marti