The First Filipino Quotes

“life is a very serious matter, and only those who have brains and a heart have a good life. To live is to be among men, and to be among men is to struggle. But this struggle is not an animal, material struggle, nor is it a struggle only with other men; it is a struggle with them but also with one's self, with their passions but also with one's own, with errors and with anxieties. It is an eternal struggle, [which one must sustain] with a smile on one's lips, and tears in the heart. In this battlefield, a man has no better weapon than his intelligence, no greater strength than that of his own heart.10”
― León María Guerrero, The First Filipino: The Award-Winning Biography of Jose Rizal