Kartilya ng katipunan

• a good deed that springs from desire for personal profit and not from a desire to do good is not kindness
• life which is not consecrated to a lofty and sacred cause is like a tree without shadow, if not a poisonous weed.
• true greatness consists of being charitable, in loving one's fellowmen and in adjusting every movement, deed and word to true reason.
• all men are equal, be the color of their skin black or white. one may be superior to another in knowledge, wealth, and beauty but cannot be superior being.
• he who is noble prefers honor to personal gains; he who is mean prefers personal profit to honor.
• to a man with a sense of shame, his word is inviolable.
• don't fritter away time; lost riches may be recovered, but time lost will never come again.
• defend the oppressed and fight the oppressor.
• an intelligent man is he who is cautious in speech and knows how to keep the secrets that must be guarded.
• in the thorny path of life, man is the guide of his wife and children; if he who guides moves toward evil, they who are guided are likewise to move toward evil.
• think not of a woman as a thing merely to while away with time, but a helper and partner in the hardship of life. Respect her in her weakness, and remember the mother who brought you into this world and cared for you in your childhood.
• what you do not want done to your wife, daughter and sister, do not do to the wife, daughter and sister of another.
• The nobility of a man does not consist in being a king, nor in the highness of the nose and the whiteness of the skin, nor in being a priest representing God, nor in the exalted position in this earth, but pure and truly noble is he who, though was born in the woods, is possessed of an upright character, who is true to his word; who has dignity and honor, who does not oppress and does not help those who oppress; who knows how to look after and love the land of his birth.
• When these doctrines spread and the Sun of beloved liberty shines with brilliant effulgence on these unhappy isles and sheds its soft rays upon the united people and brothers in everlasting happiness, the lives, labors, and sufferings of those who are gone shall be more than recompensed.