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• For myself I think that one wrong does not right the other, and forgiveness cannot be won with useless tears or alms to the Church.

  Jose Rizal

  Thinking, Tears, Church

  Jose Rizal (2010). “Noli Me Tangere: Translated by Leon Ma. Guerrero”, p.44, BookBaby

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• I don't see why I should bow my head when I could hold it high, or place it in the hands of my enemies when I can defeat them.

  Jose Rizal

  Hands, Enemy, Bows

  Jose Rizal (2010). “Noli Me Tangere: Translated by Leon Ma. Guerrero”, p.276, BookBaby

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• To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence it would be to doubt everything.

  Jose Rizal

  Doubt, Would Be, Conscience

  Letter to Fr. Pastells, April 04, 1893.

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• The people do not complain because they have no voice; do not move because they are lethargic, and you say that they do not suffer because you have not seen their hearts bleed.

  Jose Rizal

  Moving, Heart, Voice

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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.

  Jose Rizal

  Beautiful, Fall, Sleep

  "Mi último adiós". Poem by José Rizal. Stanza 5, 1897.

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• The tyranny of some is possible only through the cowardice of others.

  Jose Rizal

  Noli Me Tangere, Cowardice, Tyranny

  Letter to the Young Women of Malolos (translated from Tagalog by Gregorio Zaide), February 22, 1889.

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• It is not the criminals who arouse the hatred of others, but the men who are honest.

  Jose Rizal

  Men, Hatred, Criminals

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• I go where there are no slaves, hangmen or oppressors; where faith does not kill; where the one who reigns is God.

  Jose Rizal

  Doe, Reign, Noli Me Tangere

  "Mi Ultimo Adios". Poem by José Rizal, translated by Charles Derbyshire. Stanza 13, 1897.

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• Why independence? If the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow.

  Jose Rizal

  Tyrants, Independence, Today

  JOSE RIZAL (1962). “THE SUBVERSIVE”

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• Each one writes history according to his convenience.

  Jose Rizal

  Writing, Convenience

  Letter to Blumentritt from Leipzig, August 22, 1886.

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• I can concede that the government has no knowledge of the people, but I believe the people know less of the government. There are useless officials, evil, if you like, but there are also good ones, and these are not able to accomplish anything because they encounter an inert mass, the population that takes little part in matters that concern them.

  Jose Rizal

  Believe, Government, People

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• Who does not love his own tongue is far worse than a brute or stinking fish.

  Jose Rizal

  Love, Animal, Fish Tanks

  "Did Young Rizal Really Write Poem for Children?" by Ambeth R. Ocampo, newsinfo.inquirer.net. August 22, 2011.

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• Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.

  Jose Rizal

  Passion, Childhood, Age

  "'Los Viajes' ('Travels')". Essay by José Rizal, La Solidaridad, May 15, 1889.

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• No one blames a pilot who takes refuge in port when the storm begins to blow. It is not cowardice to duck under a bullet; what is wrong is to defy it only to fall and never rise again.

  Jose Rizal

  Fall, Blow, Ducks

  Jose Rizal (2010). “Noli Me Tangere: Translated by Leon Ma. Guerrero”, p.278, BookBaby

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• It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

  Jose Rizal

  Useless Life, Stones, Fields

  "An Asia of Tolerance and Humility That Learns from Each Other". Dinner Speech by Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan, on the Occasion of the Nineteenth International Conference on "The Future of Asia", japan.kantei.go.jp. May 23, 2013.

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• While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.

  Jose Rizal

  People, Liberty, Language

  Jose Rizal, Charles Derbyshire (1912). “The reign of greed: a complete English version of El Filibusterismo from the Spanish”

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• Climate affects bipeds in the same way it does quadrupeds.

  Jose Rizal

  Climate, Doe, Way

  "The Philippines: a Century Hence". Book by José Rizal, archive.org. 1912.

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• No one has a monopoly of the true God, nor is there a nation or religion that can claim, or at any rate prove, that it has been given the exclusive right to the Creator or sole knowledge of His Being.

  Jose Rizal

  Noli Me Tangere, Claims, Monopoly

  Annotation to "Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas" by Antonio de Morga. Translated by Austin Craig,

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• Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction.

  Jose Rizal

  Men, Remove, Objects

  "Indolence of the Filipino". La Solidaridad, 1890.

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• Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.

  Jose Rizal

  Selfishness, Noli Me Tangere, Shame

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• Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.

  Jose Rizal

  Men, Numbers, Noli Me Tangere

  "'Los Viajes' ('Travels')". Essay by José Rizal, La Solidaridad, May 15, 1889.

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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!

  Jose Rizal

  Grace, Youth, Serene

  Jose Rizal, “To The Philippine Youth”

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

  Jose Rizal

  Death, Reap, Seeds

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• The world laughs at another man's pain.

  Jose Rizal

  Pain, Men, Laughing

  "Song of the Wanderer". Poem by José Rizal, translated by Nick Joaquin, www.poemhunter.com.

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• I honor the father in his son, not the son in his father. Each one receives a reward or punishment for his deeds, but not for the acts of others.

  Jose Rizal

  Father, Son, Punishment

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