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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A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.
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A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.
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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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But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.
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Charm is a product of the unexpected.
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Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright.
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Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men.
- Jose Marti Quote

Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.
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Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.
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He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.
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He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.
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In truth, men speak too much of danger.
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It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.
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It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.
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It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.
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Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.
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Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
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Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.
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Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.
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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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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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Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.
- Jose Marti Quote

Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.
- Jose Marti Quote

One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.
- Jose Marti Quote

Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.
- Jose Marti Quote

Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.
- Jose Marti Quote

Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love.
- Jose Marti Quote

Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.
- Jose Marti Quote

Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.
- Jose Marti Quote

The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well.
- Jose Marti Quote

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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There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.
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To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly.
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To use for our exclusive benefit what is not ours is theft.
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We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.
- Jose Marti Quote