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## Fernando Pessoa quotes on ethics

1. > The perfect man of pagans was the perfection of the man there is; the perfect man of christians, the perfection of the man there isn't; the buddhists' perfect man, the perfection of not existing a man.

[Permalink to quote \#90](https://quotesby.net/Fernando-Pessoa/90/ "Permalink to quote 90")
2. > There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.

[Permalink to quote \#92](https://quotesby.net/Fernando-Pessoa/92/ "Permalink to quote 92")
3. > All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what everybody does.

[Permalink to quote \#130](https://quotesby.net/Fernando-Pessoa/130/ "Permalink to quote 130")
4. > Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.

[Permalink to quote \#148](https://quotesby.net/Fernando-Pessoa/148/ "Permalink to quote 148")
5. > Humanitarianim is rude.

[Permalink to quote \#159](https://quotesby.net/Fernando-Pessoa/159/ "Permalink to quote 159")

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