Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
– Fernando Pessoa
No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
– Fernando Pessoa
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
To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
– Fernando Pessoa
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.
– Fernando Pessoa
Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.