Vítor Monteiro

“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

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

“He [Weishaupt] says, no one ever laid a surer foundation for liberty than our grand master, Jesus of Nazareth.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Works of Thomas Jefferson. Including The Jefferson Bible, Autobiography and The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (Illustrated), with Notes on Virginia, Parliamentary ... more.

“- Então, Cohen, diga-nos você, conte-nos cá... O empréstimo faz-se ou não se faz? E acirrou a curiosidade, dizendo para os lados, que aquela questão do empréstimo era grave. Uma operação tremenda, um verdadeiro episódio histórico!... O Cohen colocou uma pitada de sal à beira do prato, e respondeu, com autoridade, que o empréstimo tinha de se realizar absolutamente. Os emprestamos em Portugal constituíam hoje uma das fontes de receita, tão regular, tão indispensável, tão sabida como o imposto. A única ocupação mesmo dos ministérios era esta - cobrar o imposto e fazer o empréstimo. E assim se havia de continuar... Carlos não entendia de finanças: mas parecia-lhe que, desse modo, o país ia alegremente e lindamente para a banca-rota.”
― Eça de Queirós, Os Maias