8. Defend the oppressed and 2. To do good for personal gain 1. The life that is not fight the oppressor before the and not for its own sake is not consecrated to a lofty and law or in the field. virtue. reasonable purpose is a tree 9. The prudent man is sparing 3. It is rational to be charitable without a shade, if not a in words and faithful in keeping and love one's fellow creature, poisonous weed. secrets. and to adjust one's conduct, 7. Do not waste thy time: 13. Man is not worth more acts and words to what is in wealth can be recovered but because he is a king, because itself reasonable. not time lost. his nose is aquiline, and his 4. Whether our skin be black or 10. On the thorny path of life, color white, not because he is a white, we are all born equal: man is the guide of woman and *priest, a servant of God, nor superiority in knowledge, the children, and if the guide because of the high prerogative wealth and beauty are to be leads to the precipice, those that he enjoys upon earth, but understood, but not superiority whom he guides will also go he is worth most who is a man by nature. there. of proven and real value, who 5. The honorable man prefers 12. What thou dost not desire does good, keeps his words, is honor to personal gain; the done unto thy wife, children, worthy and honest; he who scoundrel, gain to honor. brothers and sisters, that do does not oppress nor consent 6. To the honorable man, his not unto the wife, children, to being oppressed, he who word is sacred. brothers and sisters of thy loves and cherishes his 11. Thou must not look upon neighbor. fatherland, though he be born woman as a mere plaything, in the wilderness and know no but as a faithful companion tongue but his own. who will share with thee the 14. When these rules of penalties of life; her (physical) conduct shall be known to all, weakness will increase thy the longed-for sun of Liberty interest in her and she will shall rise brilliant over this most remind thee of the mother who unhappy portion of the globe bore thee and reared thee. and its rays shall diffuse everlasting joy among the confederated brethren of the same rays, the lives of those who have gone before, the fatigues and the well-paid sufferings will remain. If he who desires to enter (the Katipunan) has informed himself of all this and believes he will be able to perform what will be his duties, he may fill out the application for admission.