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Eugenio Maria de Hostos Quotes


Brief author info: Eugenio Maria de Hostos (1839-1903) Puerto Rican patriot. Writer and sociologist; opposed slavery; traveled extensively; in Puerto Rico, organized Lega de Pa-triotes Puertorriquenos (League of Puerto Rican Patriots); worked for Puerto Rican independence, but efforts failed in his lifetime; many sayings still quoted in Puerto Rico.


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Nearly all human beings love, but nearly none know how to love.
By educating women to use all their brains, men will not only be just, but will also ensure the future of a new social order in which women will apply their intelligence and warm feelings to the problems of living. Men are fools to entrust the upbringing of their sons, whom they expect to grow up to love freedom, to women who have never known freedom themselves.
If you wish to know what justice is, let injustice pursue you.
There are complete men and incomplete men. If you would be a complete man, put all of your soul's strength into all of your life's actions.
Lend your light to the blind. Why should the wickedness of men irritate you, when it is only blindness?
When you cannot be just through virtue, be so through pride.
Ideas are born, they struggle, triumph, change, and they are transformed; but is there a dead idea which in the end does not live on, transformed into a broader and clearer goal?
When you cannot be just because of your nature, be so through your pride.
Slavery has as many shapes among us as there are things we need.
All men are good when free from passion, interest, or error.



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The time we waste trying to find out what life is all about could be spent loving someone and finding out.



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