# Camões' most famous lines

From the love sonnets to The Lusiads (1572): the lines by Luís Vaz de Camões that the whole Portuguese-speaking world knows by heart, with the work each comes from.

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- Feb 23, 2022 · o_gasolina
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## Top 13

1. **Where the land ends and the sea begins** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Portugal in The Lusiads, Canto III.
2. **Love is a fire that burns unseen; a wound that aches and is not felt** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Sonnet.
3. **Who was made Queen after she was dead.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Inês de Castro, The Lusiads, Canto III.
4. **For whoever doesn't know an art doesn't value it.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — The Lusiads, Canto V.
5. **Arms and the famous heroes** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — First line of The Lusiads, Canto I.
6. **Times change, and wills change; being changes, trust changes** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Sonnet.
7. **The lover is transformed into the thing loved** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Sonnet.
8. **Let all the ancient Muse sang cease, for a higher valour rises.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The Lusiads, Canto I.
9. **It is weakness to be a lion among sheep.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The Lusiads.
10. **O glory of command! O vain greed for this vanity we call Fame!** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — The Old Man of Restelo, The Lusiads, Canto IV.
11. **I always saw the good suffer grave torments in the world, and the wicked always swim in a sea of contentment.** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Verses on the disorder of the world.
12. **My gentle soul, who departed so soon from this life, discontented** (-1 · ▲1 ▼2) — Sonnet.
13. **For in great dangers, fear is often greater than the danger.** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — The Lusiads.

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