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José Martí on Mother's Day

1853–1895 Cuba

← All quotes by José Martí

6 quotes

Mankind is composed of two sorts of men — those who love and create, and those who hate and destroy.

Letter to a Cuban Farmer (1893)

Life on earth is a hand-to-hand mortal combat... between the law of love and the law of hate.

Letter (1881)

Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love. But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything.

Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)

Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever. Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)

Love is... born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other, it is concluded with the impossibility of separation!

Amor (1887)

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so. To fulfill one's duty elevates the soul to a state of constant sweetness. Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.

Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: José Martí (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.