José Rizal: Citations en anglais
“No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed.”
Letter to the Young Women of Malolos
Noli me Tangere
“Law has no skin, reason has no nostrils.”
"The Philippines: A Century Hence"
“Each one writes history according to his convenience.”
Letter to Blumentritt, written at Leipzig,(22 August 1886)
“The world laughs at another man's pain.”
"Song of the Wanderer", st.8 - translated by Nick Joaquin.
“Death has always been the first sign of European civilization when introduced in the Pacific.”
Annotations to Morga's Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas
Letter to Fr. Pastells (4 April 1893)
Letter to Blumentritt, (31 January 1887)
“; Why independence, if the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow?”
José Rizal livre El Filibusterismo
El Filibusterismo
"Los Viajes" in La Solidaridad (15 May 1889)- translated from the Spanish by Nick Joaquin
“; De nobis, post haec, tristis sententia fertur!:After all this, you still speak ill of us!”
José Rizal livre El Filibusterismo
El Filibusterismo
Letter to Blumentritt (13 April 1887)
“; You must shatter the vase to spread its perfume, and smite the rock to get the spark.”
José Rizal livre El Filibusterismo
El Filibusterismo
“To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence it would be to doubt everything.”
Letter to Fr. Pastells (4 April 1893)
Letter to Fr. Pastells (4 April 1893)
"The Lord Gazes at the Philippine Islands", an allegory. (date unknown)
Annotations to Morga's Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas - translated by Austin Craig
"To My__" (December 1890)- translated by Nick Joaquin
“; The school of suffering tempers the spirit, the arena of combat strengthens the soul.”
José Rizal livre El Filibusterismo
El Filibusterismo
"Por La Education" (To Education, c. 1876) - translator unknown
Letter to Blumentritt (13 April 1887)
“; Pure and spotless must the victim be if the sacrifice is to be acceptable.”
José Rizal livre El Filibusterismo
El Filibusterismo
