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

Jose Rizal

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Jose Rizal
Age: 35 †
Born: 1861
Born: June 19
Died: 1896
Died: December 30
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José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda
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How long have you been away from the country? Laruja asked Ibarra. Almost seven years. Then you have probably forgotten all about it. Quite the contrary. Even if my country does seem to have forgotten me, I have always thought about it.
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The tyranny of some is possible only through the cowardice of others.
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Ignorance is servitude, because as a man thinks, so he is a man who does not think for himself and allows himself to be guided by the thought of another is like the beast led by a halter.
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Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.
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Treat your old parents as you would like to be treated by your children later.
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The appetite is sharpened by the first bites.
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Climate affects bipeds in the same way it does quadrupeds.
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I have observed that the prosperity or misery of each people is in direct proportion to its liberties or its prejudices and, accordingly, to the sacrifices or the selfishness of its forefathers. -Juan Crisostomo Ibarra
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I have to believe much in God because I have lost my faith in man.
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Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.
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He who would love much has also much to suffer.
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To live is to be among men, and to be among men is to struggle, a struggle not only with them but with oneself with their passions, but also with one's own.
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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.
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Let us not ask for miracles, let us not ask for concern with what is good for the country of him who comes as a stranger to make his fortune and leave afterwards.
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It is not the criminals who arouse the hatred of others, but the men who are honest.
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While a people preserves its language it preserves the marks of liberty.
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Your enemies hate you more than they hate your ideas. Should you want a project to be undone propose it. Even if it were as useful as a bishop's mire it would be rejected. Once you are defeated let the humblest-looking among you sponsor it and your enemies to humble you will approve it.
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No, let us not make God in our image, poor inhabitants that we are of a distant planet lost in infinite space. However brilliant and sublime our intelligence may be, it is scarcely more than a small spark which shines and in an instant is extinguished, and it alone can give us no idea of that blaze, that conflagration, that ocean of light!
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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!
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