WHAT IS THE IDEOLOGY OF THE PENTATHLON?

1.    Give your country more than your life is worth.

2.    Do not try to be the lesser of two evils: always try to be the best of the best.

3.    Remember that the defects of others do not make you a better person, neither do they excuse your ignorance.

4.    Your worth is not in your possesions but in what you do.

5.    Richness does not come by being surrounded by poverty, neither does knowledge come from being surrounced by ignorance, nor does virtue come from being surrounded by wickedness, nor does your strength come from the weakness around you.  Your worth will be authentic when you omit the negative aspects around you in order to establish your own references of value.

6.    When the true successes of the people around you give you joy, admit that there is nobility within yourself.

7.    Act as if everything depends upon you; fight as if only you had to win, work as if you were the only employee, think and act as if you where the best.  And do all of this not to be a hero but rather as if it were your duty.

8.    It is not pretty works and phrases that will save the country, but the great ideals and the great permanent works that they build, prefer to be a valuable and good worker over an elegant speaker.

9.    If you have accomplised something great, be happy but don’t forget that others can do it better than you.

10. Do not wait for someone else to execute your work.

11. If you have a position of heirarchy for what you have done, to maintain it with honor, think that you have accomplished nothing yet.

12. Do not forge your character by eluding obstacles but by overcoming them.

13. If you cannot resolve a situation with dignity and efficacy, ask for help from someone that knows more and that is more capable than you but don’t complicate matters with your pride or ineptitude.

14. Do not go looking for a good friend, try to be a good friend to everyone.

15. May your hands be strong and rough from working, but not rough from applauding powerful people.

16. Prefer the company of pigs and the air of the sewers than the company of despots, exploiters and their atmosphere of perfume.

17. If you command or lead, do not humiliate. If you obey, do not defraud. If you command, think. If you obey, think as well.

18. If your obligation as an animal is to grow, as is your obligation as a man or woman is to think, work, love, …don’t take satifaction in having a strong body, for there are other beasts far superior to you.

19. If you want to show off something, let it be your cleanliness and your good humor.

20. Respect the sincere opinions of others even if they differ from your own; but don’t hide or depreciate your own convictions.      

21. Do not let your good deeds be repugnant or repelling to others, do them without boasting or flaunting.  

22. Even when nobody is watching, behave with self respect without expecting to get any rewards for behaving with dignity.

23. Enhance your knowledge with joy, strength perservereance and apply these behaviors to the benefit of those that deserve them.

24. Try to be strong in the face of praise or in adversity, but direct your strength in the favor of justice.

25. Do not strive only in finding those that you need, try to discover those that can benefit from you.

26. Consider youself far from the ideal that you pursue if the misery and hunger of others doesn’t hurt you.

27. If you are enthusiastic to die like a hero, consider that your country needs victorious lives more than victorious deaths.  

28. Always fight for equality, but not for the equality that is submerged in obscurity and contrary to good principles. Rather fight for the highest and best expressions of humanity: justice, honor, work, culture and the forms of moral and aesthtic values.     

29. If your worth is authentic, it won’t be improved by boasting.

30.  Don’t look for gold or silver as payment for your work, rather seek the intimate acqusition of a better social position or intellect.

31.  Never be ashamed of having believed in the dignity of someone that did not have it.  The perverse and the unrepented are absolutes that only exist in pathology.

32. Do not spend your life like a parasitic weed that never gives fruit and always lives off of others.

33. Avoid ridiculing yourself by thinking that you’re indispensible, but also do not think less of yourself or that you are useless.

34. It is easy to bring together cowards, unpleasent people, and unhappy people for negative reasons, don’t flatter yourself that you can do it, because anyone can, but fill yourself with the safisfaction of conserving the union and harmony and peace for positive reasons, even with those that have different characteristics; this is singular and deserves merit.

35. Be happy without lowering yourself, courteous without exagerating, cultured without pedantery, valiant with no fear, simple, enthusiastic and strong without showing off.

36. Have faith in your endeavors, and perservere in them with confidence to make them a reality.  Add any successes to the strength of your efforts, make a note of any failure in the catalogue of your experiences, but never renounce your task neither make it less with your lack of motivation.       

37. If your ancestors give you traditions of glory and honor, it is your duty to correspond in a way that will not decrease, diminish nor blemish such traditions. If they give you the legacy of misery and ruin, your duty is to do what they were unable to do and the part that corresponds to you.      

38. Try to adjust your best intentions with the reality of your life; follow the examples of those that do well before delighting in the musings of theory.

39. Act with generosity towards those that conduct themselves with dignity and that motivate healthy happiness, but be closed against gossip and prejudices.      

40. Nothing that exists is worthless, the macrocosm is made up of the smallest particles of energy. There is coordination, energy and bounty in everything. The smallest organism summarizes abysses of mystery that                 that keeps thought suspended tied to technique and unleashing fantasy. To admire the celestial mantle, it is improper to sink in the depths of profundity of a well. It is better to procure the heights of human virtue, to discover the worth of our equals, not only judge them for their faults, because they, like bacteria are illuminated by the sun and fed by the earth.      

41. Illuminate the meaning of your existence in the same way that an artist tries to infuse symphonies that surge from the forests that rise from the deserts or emerge from the abysmal depths shaken by the torrents, the voices of storms, the happiness of the breeze, the counter points of the waves, the arias of the serene waters, the petrified hymnals of the mountains that rise to the sky and when like the artist, you accomplish this, you will perceive and comprehend that your life does not lack meaning.

42. Try to make your thoughts like the air of the mountains, ample, pure, and benevolent for all.

This document was translated from the original Spanish to English by:  

Colleen nevins

Renee Harger

Jose Bernal

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