Cesar aptly defined what ambition is all about when he said: „Better to be first in the village then the second in Rome!” I'm nothing in the village and nothing in the Rome. The corner grocer is at least respected from Rua de Assuncao to the Rua de Vitoria; he's Cesar of a square city block. Me superior to him? In what, if nothingness admits neither superiority nor inferiority, nor even comparison?
-Pessoa
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