Life does not demand from people what they are not yet able to give.
A man slow to anger is better than a hero, and a man in control of himself than the conqueror of a city.
Biblical Texts
Things belong to those who know how to enjoy them.
André Gide
You do me good, I can't think of anyone.
Marília Mendonça
as long as the nation is not aware that it is essential to adapt to freedom each of the devices of its organism that slavery appropriated...
Joaquim Nabuco
I found that men should be thanked as little as possible, because the recognition we witness to them easily convinces them that they are acting...
Benjamin Constant