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People can only be free if they are truly educated.

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.

Mientras mas honda la herida,
Es mi canto mas hermoso.
While more deeper is the wound
The more beautiful the art.

This is the age in which hills can look down upon the mountains.

Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.

Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself.

Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.

In truth, men speak too much of danger.

We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.

He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

No fruit on earth can rival the cemetery's crop

God is weeping. And how the people weep when they make God weep!

Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights.

It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.

Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.

It is the duty of man to raise up man.

He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical.

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.

To change masters is not to be free.

Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them.

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

Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men.

The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.

Rights are to be taken, not requested; seized, not begged for.

Nature has placed the need to see justice done in some souls, and the need to flout and affront it in others.

The only way to be totally free is through education.

The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women.

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

A poem is something sacred. Let no one Take it for anything except itself.

It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.

Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love.

Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.

Sane love, is not love

Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.

Literature is the most beautiful of countries

Charm is a product of the unexpected.

My poems please the brave : My poems, short and sincere , Have the force of steel Which forges swords .

The brave forget. It is those who fought less bravely, or those who fought without justice and live in fear of their victory, who forget the least.

Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.

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.

To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly.

I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows.

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.

Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.

A good soul on earth hurts very much.

The truthe wakes up once and never dies.

A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.

Our wine is bitter, but it is our wine.

The first duty of a man is to think for himself

All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason , and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light .

To Educate is to Free.

Only oppression should fear the full exercise of freedom.

A selfish man is a thief.

Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us.

Only tyranny fears the full expression of liberty.

I have lived in the monster and I know its insides; and my sling is the sling of David .

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

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.

Habit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit.

Only those who hate the Negro see hatred in the Negro.

The dagger plunged in the name of freedom is plunged into the breast of freedom.

America is a land of creators and rebels.

He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.

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

Strength comes from waiting.

To beautify life is to give it an object.

To use for our exclusive benefit what is not ours is theft.

Everything that divides men, everything that separates or herds men together in categories, is a sin against humanity.

Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

Oh, what company good poets are!

One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve.

Life on earth is hand-to-hand mortal combat ... between the law of love and the law of hate.

Day and night I always dream with open eyes.

My poems are like a dagger Sprouting flowers from the hilt; My poetry is like a fountain Sprinkling streams of coral water.

We are free, but no to be evil