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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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Jose Rizal
Age: 35 †
Born: 1861
Born: June 19
Died: 1896
Died: December 30
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Jose Rizal
José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda
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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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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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What is death to me? I have sown the seeds others will reap.
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