Portuguese - Author | June 13, 1888 - November 30, 1935
Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.
Fernando Pessoa
SuccessPotentialGroundSuccessful
Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
WiseWorldShowWhoHeOffered
All is worthwhile if the soul is not small.
SoulSmallWorthwhile
No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
AcceptanceStupidityIntelligentGain
To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost.
TodayFeelRememberYesterdayLiving
Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
Valentine's DayLookEarthLike
At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.
FirstRootStrikesUnfamiliarThen
Could it think, the heart would stop beating.
HeartThinkStopWouldBeating
To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
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