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In a time of crisis, the peoples of the world must rush to get to know each other.
Habit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit.
He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.
Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.
I have lived in the monster and I know its insides; and my sling is the sling of David.
Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.
The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women.
Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men.
My poems please the brave: My poems, short and sincere, Have the force of steel Which forges swords.
Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.
Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights.
Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.
A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.
All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason, and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light.
Nature has placed the need to see justice done in some souls, and the need to flout and affront it in others.
Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.
Everything that divides men, everything that separates or herds men together in categories, is a sin against humanity.
Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.
An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.
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.
Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.
I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows.
My poems are like a dagger Sprouting flowers from the hilt; My poetry is like a fountain Sprinkling streams of coral water.
Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.
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.
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.
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.
Men are products, expressions, reflections; they live to the extent that they coincide with their epoch, or to the extent that they differ markedly from it.
Do something useful and you will have everything you want. Doors are shut for those who are dull and lazy; life is secure for those who obey the law of work.
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.
To educate is to give man the keys to the world, which are independence and love, and to give him strength to journey on his own, light of step, a spontaneous and free being.
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.
Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.
Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.
To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.
A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.
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.
The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you.
The spirit of a government must be that of the country. The form of a government must come from the makeup of the country. Government is nothing but the balance of the natural elements of a country.
"Racist" is a confusing word, and it should be clarified. Men have no special rights simply because they belong to one race or another. When you say "men," you have already imbued them with all their rights.
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.
In this world, there must be a certain degree of honor just as there must be a certain amount of light. When there are many men without honor, there will always be some others who bear in themselves the honor of many men.
But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.
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.
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.
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.
Many houses were still full of light when, at the close of March 22, the people of the Círculo returned to their homes, which were gladdened with a fleeting gladness by an hour of justice - for there are still many slaves, black and white, in Puerto Rico!