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Our wine is bitter, but it is our wine.
Jose Marti
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Jose Marti
Age: 42 †
Born: 1853
Born: January 28
Died: 1895
Died: May 19
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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.
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Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.
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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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A selfish man is a thief.
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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.
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Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.
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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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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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Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
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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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A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.
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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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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.
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Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.
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Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.
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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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Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.
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I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows.
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