Quote

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

Jose Marti

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jose Marti
Age: 42 †
Born: 1853
Born: January 28
Died: 1895
Died: May 19
Activist
Essayist
Journalist
Linguist
Painter
Poet
Politician
Revolutionary
Soldier
Translator
Writer
Havana
Cuba
Jose Marti
May
Although
Duty
Seem
Happiness
Happy
Seems

More quotes by Jose Marti

Image
It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.
Jose Marti
Image
Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men.
Jose Marti
Image
A selfish man is a thief.
Jose Marti
Image
Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.
Jose Marti
Image
A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.
Jose Marti
Image
Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.
Jose Marti
Image
Treacherous assassins, enemies of the people, and worthy of everyone's ridicule are those who, under the pretext of guiding future generations, teach them an isolated system of doctrines and whisper in their ear (instead of the sweet message of love) the barbarous gospel of hate.
Jose Marti
Image
It is my duty to prevent, through the independence of Cuba, the U.S.A. from spreading over the West Indies and falling with addedweight upon other lands of Our America. All I have done up to now and shall do hereafter is to that end.... I know the Monster, because I have lived in its lair--and my weapon is only the slingshot of David.
Jose Marti
Image
Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
Jose Marti
Image
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.
Jose Marti
Image
It is the duty of man to raise up man.
Jose Marti
Image
No fruit on earth can rival the cemetery's crop
Jose Marti
Image
I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows.
Jose Marti
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in exile, watched over like wild animals, cast from one country to another, concealing the death of their souls with a beggar's smile from the scorn of free men.
Jose Marti
Image
All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason, and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light.
Jose Marti
Image
One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.
Jose Marti
Image
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.
Jose Marti
Image
Only those who hate the Negro see hatred in the Negro.
Jose Marti