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Jose Marti
Age: 42 †
Born: 1853
Born: January 28
Died: 1895
Died: May 19
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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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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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Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.
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The nation that buys commands, the nation that sells serves it is necessary to balance trade in order to ensure freedom the country that wants to die sells only to one country , and the country that wants to survive sells to more than one.
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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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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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Nature has placed the need to see justice done in some souls, and the need to flout and affront it in others.
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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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Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.
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It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.
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The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.
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But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.
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He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical.
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To beautify life is to give it an object.
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We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.
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Strength comes from waiting.
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A selfish man is a thief.
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Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.
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Only those who hate the Negro see hatred in the Negro.
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Everything that divides men, everything that separates or herds men together in categories, is a sin against humanity.
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