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“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”
Patientia comes est sapientiae

“It is so hard to get things done in this world. You try and too often it doesn't work. But you have to continue. And you never give up. ”

“If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life”

“This growing tendency of women to overshadow the masculine is a sign of a deteriorating civilization.”

“There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.”

“The right does not deny the disappeared detainees: it manages them as silence. For them, they are not absent bodies but obstacles already overcome; and upon that well-ordered grave they build their idea of a country.”

“Frustration and desperation are on the same floor as naivety.”

“If your opponent is of choleric temperament, seek to irritate him.”

“Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights of others. A society with unlimited rights is incapable of standing to adversity. If we do not wish to be ruled by a coercive authority, then each of us must rein himself in… A stable society is achieved not by balancing opposing forces but by conscious self-limitation: by the principle that we are always duty-bound to defer to the sense of moral justice.”

“In Guadalajara, those who have never waited for a bus under the sun, who have never breathed the heavy air of a public hospital nor reached out to the government for help, raise their hands to decide for you.”

“I exist not to be loved and admired, but to love and act. It is not the duty of those around me to love me. Rather, it is my duty to be concerned about the world, about man.”

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”

“When people stop shuddering at the pain of others, crime no longer needs executioners: consent is enough.”

“Sometimes people like to ask me why should girls go to school, why is it important for them. But I think the more important question is why shouldn't they, why shouldn't they have this right to go to school.”

“Gay as a daffodil.”

“Thousands of people who say they "love" animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been utterly deprived of everything that could make their lives worth living and who endured the awful suffering and the terror of the abattoirs— and the journey to get there— before finally leaving their miserable world, only too often after a painful death.”

“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.”

“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”

“They fear love because it creates a world they can't control.”