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A grain of poetry suffices to season a century. ↗

— Jose Marti

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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. ↗

— Jose Marti

#beautiful #being #contains #every #god

Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas. ↗

— Jose Marti

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Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men. ↗

— Jose Marti

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Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all. ↗

— Jose Marti

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He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter. ↗

— Jose Marti

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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. ↗

— Jose Marti

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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. ↗

— Jose Marti

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Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men. ↗

— Jose Marti

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Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity. ↗

— Jose Marti

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