Vítor Monteiro

“Morreu Fernando Pessoa. Mal acabei de ler a notícia no jornal, fechei a porta do consultório e meti-me pelos montes a cabo. Fui chorar com os pinheiros e com as fragas a morte do nosso maior poeta de hoje, que Portugal viu passar num caixão para a eternidade sem ao menos perguntar quem era.”
― Miguel Torga, Diário - Volume I

“Políticos e fraldas devem ser trocados de tempos em tempos pelo mesmo motivo.”
― Eça de Queirós

“Alcácer do Sal

A sombra azul da palavra moira
O branco vivo da palavra sal”
― Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Obra Poética

“1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. 3. ORDER. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. 4. RESOLUTION. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. 5. FRUGALITY. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing. 6. INDUSTRY. Lose no time; be always employ'd in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions. 7. SINCERITY. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly. 8. JUSTICE. Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty. 9. MODERATION. Avoid extreams; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve. 10. CLEANLINESS. Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, cloaths, or habitation. 11. TRANQUILLITY. Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable. 12. CHASTITY. Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dulness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation. 13. HUMILITY. Imitate Jesus and Socrates.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin