Jose Rizal
Quotes
Not all were asleep during the night of our forefathers!
Believing in accidents is like believing in miracles--both presuppose that God does not know the future.
Fate presented itself to some like a chinese fan--one side black, the other side gilded with flowers.
The glory of saving a country is not for him who has contributed to its ruin.
Truth does not need to borrow garments from error. (Also translated as: Truth does not need to borrow garments from falsehood.)
The school of suffering tempers the spirit, the arena of combat strengthens the soul.
I die without seeing the dawn brighten over my native land.You who have it to see, welcome it--and forget not those who have fallen during the night!
De nobis, post haec, tristis sententia fertur!After all this, you still speak ill of us!
It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted in the field without becoming part of an edifice.
Fame to be sweet must resound in the ears of those we love, in the atmosphere of the land that will guard our ashes. Fame should hover over our tomb to warm with its heat the chill of death, so that we may not be completely reduced to nothingness, that something of us may survive.
There are no tyrants where there are no slaves.
Why independence, if the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow?
