Kingdom of Portugal
Quotes & Thinkers from Kingdom of Portugal
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Fernando Pessoa
Literature
1888–1935
"It's been a long time since I've been me."
153 quotes
Anthony of Padua
Religion
1195–1231
"Sicut turris defendit castrum sic humilitas cordis defendit castitatem corporis a iaculis fornicationis."
1 quotes
Francisco Luís Gomes
Politics
1829–1869
"Being a good administrator and a bad politician, Pombal was not always a happy legislator."
15 quotes
Duarte Barbosa
Literature
1480–1521
"that every man may come and go, and live according to his own creed without suffering any annoyance, and without enquiring whether he is a Christian, Jew, Moor or Heathen. Great equity and justice is observed by all."
3 quotes
Vasco da Gama
1469–1525
1 quotes
Pero Vaz de Caminha
Entertainment
1437–1500
1 quotes
Francisco de Sá de Meneses
Literature
1600–1664
"The Conquest of Malacca, translated into English by Edgar C. Knowlton Jr. — Sejarah Melayu Library"
1 quotes
Notable Quotes
"And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream."
— Fernando Pessoa, b. 1888View →
"Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul."
— Fernando Pessoa, b. 1888View →
"A tedium that includes only the anticipation of more tedium; the regret, now, of tomorrow regretting having regretted today."
— Fernando Pessoa, b. 1888View →
"Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be."
— Fernando Pessoa, b. 1888View →
"I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted."
— Fernando Pessoa, b. 1888View →