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“As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die”. –Federico García Lorca

“Better to be cheated by the price than by the merchandise”. –Baltasar Gracián

“In order to obtain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd”. –Miguel de Cervantes

“A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay; its free government is transformed into tyranny; it disregards the principles which it should preserve, and finally degenerates into despotism”. –Simon Bolivar

“Any kind of organization for the goodwill of the people is impossible. It is necessary for the contrary. Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something, you know? If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ig-no-min-i-ously”. –Salvador Dali

“Riches don’t make a man rich, they only make him busier”. –Christopher Columbus

“It’s not what the artist does that counts, but what he is”. — Pablo Picasso

“Men may be divided into two types: men of words and men of action. The first speaks; the latter act. I am of the second type. I lack the means to express myself adequately”. –Antonio Gaudi

“There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history, and the ones who endure it”. –Camilo Jose Cela

“The tyranny of some is only possible through the cowardice of others”. –Jose Rizal

“Suffering is the substance of life, and the root of personality; for it is only suffering that makes us persons”. –Miguel de Unamuno