Camões' most famous lines
The top 3 according to 22 votes from people: Where the land ends and the sea begins · Love is a fire that burns unseen; a wound that aches and is not felt · Who was made Queen after she was dead.. (Updated Feb 23, 2022.)
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.
Automatically translated (original in Português). See the original
Top 13
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Where the land ends and the sea begins
Portugal in The Lusiads, Canto III.
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Love is a fire that burns unseen; a wound that aches and is not felt
Sonnet.
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3
Who was made Queen after she was dead.
Inês de Castro, The Lusiads, Canto III.
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For whoever doesn't know an art doesn't value it.
The Lusiads, Canto V.
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5
Arms and the famous heroes
First line of The Lusiads, Canto I.
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Times change, and wills change; being changes, trust changes
Sonnet.
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7
The lover is transformed into the thing loved
Sonnet.
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Let all the ancient Muse sang cease, for a higher valour rises.
The Lusiads, Canto I.
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9
It is weakness to be a lion among sheep.
The Lusiads.
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10
O glory of command! O vain greed for this vanity we call Fame!
The Old Man of Restelo, The Lusiads, Canto IV.
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11
I always saw the good suffer grave torments in the world, and the wicked always swim in a sea of contentment.
Verses on the disorder of the world.
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My gentle soul, who departed so soon from this life, discontented
Sonnet.
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13
For in great dangers, fear is often greater than the danger.
The Lusiads.
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