Friar! What a strange name. I don't remember having created such a thing!
Treat your old parents as you would like to be treated by your children later.
If the Philippines secure their independence after heroic and stubborn conflicts, they can rest assured that neither England, nor Germany, nor France, and still less Holland, will dare to take up what Spain has been unable to hold.
No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed.
Virtue lies in the middle ground.
For myself I think that one wrong does not right the other, and forgiveness cannot be won with useless tears or alms to the Church.