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Value your honor as you value your life. Poverty with honor is preferable to wealth with dishonor.

— Manuel L. Quezon

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I would rather have a government run like hell by Filipinos than a government run like heaven by any foreigner.

Safeguard the purity of suffrage and abide by the decisions of the majority.

My loyalty to my party ends where my loyalty to my country begins.

John Gunther's Inside Asia (1939)

Have faith in Divine Providence that guides the destinies of men and nations.

Love and respect your parents. It is your duty to serve them gratefully and well.

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook (1962)

It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.

Solomon

If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.

Leo Tolstoy

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

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