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The tyranny of some is possible only through the cowardice of others.

Each one writes history according to his convenience.

The Spaniard is gallant and patriotic, and sacrifices everything, in favorable moments, for his country's good. He has the intrepidity of his bull.

Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.

Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.

The appetite is sharpened by the first bites.

Hold high the brow serene,
O youth, where now you stand;
Let the bright sheen
Of your grace be seen,
Fair hope of my fatherland!

To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence, it would be to doubt everything; and then what is life for?

There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.

We must win when we deserve it, by elevating reason and the dignity of the individual, loving justice and the good and the great, even dying for it.

For myself I think that one wrong does not right the other, and forgiveness cannot be won with useless tears or alms to the Church.

A revolution, woven in the dim light of mystery, has kept me from you. Another revolution will return me to your arms, bring me back to life.

To be happy does not mean to indulge in foolishness!

I go where there are no slaves, hangmen or oppressors; where faith does not kill; where the one who reigns is God.

I have to believe much in God because I have lost my faith in man.

I fear for my books.

While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.

The righteous man pays the sinner's bill.

Virtue lies in the middle ground.

What is death to me? I have sown the seeds others will reap.

Vice pays for its own freedom.

Truth does not need to borrow garments from falsehood.

God has made man a cosmopolite. He created seas for ships to glide on, the wind to push them, and the stars to guide them even in darkest night.

Spain, must we some day tell Filipinas that thou hast no ear for her woes and that if she wishes to be saved she must redeem herself?

Death has always been the first sign of European civilization when introduced in the Pacific.

Law has no skin, reason has no nostrils.

The youth is the hope of our future.

Men are like turtles; they are classified and valued according to their shells. In

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There are no tyrants if there are no slaves

The glory of saving a country doesn't mean having to use the measures that contributed to its ruin!

No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed.

Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.
-Dr. Jose Rizal

Friar! What a strange name. I don't remember having created such a thing!

Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction.

He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.

I don't see why I should bow my head when I could hold it high, or place it in the hands of my enemies when I can defeat them.

A lie among the stars
Is a comfortable lie.

He who would love much has also much to suffer.

The glory of saving a country is not for him who has contributed to its ruin.

It is enough for the evil people to succeed, for the good people to do nothing.

To foretell the destiny of a nation, it is necessary to open a book that tells of her past.

Pure intuitive faith differs as much from fanaticism as fire from smoke, or music from mere noise; those who confuse the two are like the deaf.

The gods are leaving.

Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows, and necessity is the resultant of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.

Genius knows no country, genius sprouts anywhere, genius is like light, air. the patrimony of everybody, cosmopolitan like space, like life, like God.

The Filipino embraces civilization and lives and thrives in every clime, in contact with every people.

Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest.

The sword must yield to the toga, Cicero had told the Roman Senate, and the friars in the Philippines thought a cassock was as good as a toga. But

One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.

The example could encourage others who only fear to start.

Ah, is this thing that you call tinola a variety of lotus which makes people - er - forgetful?

I honor the father in his son, not the son in his father. Each one receives a reward or punishment for his deeds, but not for the acts of others.

Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.

The world laughs at another man's pain.

Oh how beautiful to fall to give you flight, to die to give you life, to rest under your sky; and in your enchanted land forever sleep.

Filipinos don't realize that victory is the child of struggle, that joy blossoms from suffering, and redemption is a product of sacrifice.

When there is in nature no fixed condition, how much less must there be in the life of a people, beings endowed with mobility and movement!

Maria Clara did not faint, simply because the Filipinos do not know how to faint.

Why independence, if the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow?

People believe that madness is when you don't think as they do, which is why they take me for a madman.

Treat your old parents as you would like to be treated by your children later.

Orientals, and the Malays in particular, are a sensitive people: delicacy of sentiment is predominant with them.

Dying people don't need medicine, the ones who remain do.

In the Philippines you are not considered to be honorable unless you have been to jail.

A faith pure and simple distinguishes itself from superstition as a flame from the smoke and music from noise.

On this battlefield man has no better weapon than his intelligence, no other force but his heart.

Climate affects bipeds in the same way it does quadrupeds.

The God they preach about is pure invention, a trick. They're the first ones to not believe in Him!

Routine is a declivity down which many governments slide, and routine says that freedom of the press is dangerous.

I wish to show those who deny us Patriotism that we know how to die for our country and convictions.

Tomorrow at 7, I shall be shot; but I am innocent of the crime of rebellion. I am going to die with a tranquil conscience.

It is not the criminals who arouse the hatred of others, but the men who are honest.

Night favors belief, and the imagination peoples the air with specters.

He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.

The people no longer has confidence in its former protectors, now its exploiters and executioners. The masks have fallen.