Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not)
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“Death has always been the first sign of European civilization when introduced in the Pacific.”
“No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed.”
“Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction.”
“Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.”
“Treat your old parents as you would like to be treated by your children later.”
“Climate affects bipeds in the same way it does quadrupeds.”
“He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.”
“Who does not love his own tongue is far worse than a brute or stinking fish.”
“While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.”
Source: The reign of greed: a complete English version of El Filibusterismo from the Spanish
Source: Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not)
“The example could encourage others who only fear to start.”
“It is not the criminals who arouse the hatred of others, but the men who are honest.”
“I have to believe much in God because I have lost my faith in man.”
“Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.”
Source: Noli Me Tangere: Translated by Leon Ma. Guerrero
Source: Noli Me Tangere: Translated by Leon Ma. Guerrero
Source: Noli Me Tangere: Translated by Leon Ma. Guerrero
Source: Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not)
“It is enough for the evil people to succeed, for the good people to do nothing.”
“On this battlefield man has no better weapon than his intelligence, no other force but his heart.”
“Friar! What a strange name. I don't remember having created such a thing!”
“To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence it would be to doubt everything.”