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Jose Marti
Age: 42 †
Born: 1853
Born: January 28
Died: 1895
Died: May 19
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There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.
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I have lived in the monster and I know its insides and my sling is the sling of David.
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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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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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Our wine is bitter, but it is our wine.
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Only those who hate the Negro see hatred in the Negro.
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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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Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
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It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.
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We are free, but no to be evil
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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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One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.
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Amor cuerdo, no es amor. (Sane love, is not love)
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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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