Quotes from book

Noli Me Tángere

“To be happy does not mean to indulge in foolishness!”

“The example could encourage others who only fear to start.”

“Dying people don't need medicine, the ones who remain do.”

“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!”

“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.”

“I have observed that the prosperity or misery of each people is in direct proportion to its liberties or its prejudices and, accordingly, to the sacrifices or the selfishness of its forefathers. -Juan Crisostomo Ibarra”

“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.”

“Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.”

“Let us not ask for miracles, let us not ask for concern with what is good for the country of him who comes as a stranger to make his fortune and leave afterwards.”