“Cease all, whose actions ancient bards expressed:
A brighter valour rises in the West.”
Cesse tudo o que a Musa antiga canta,
Que outro valor mais alto se alevanta.
Stanza 3, lines 7–8 (tr. Richard Fanshawe). Compare:
Cedite Romani scriptores, cedite Grai!
Nescioquid maius nascitur Iliade.
Make way, you Roman writers, make way, Greeks!
Something greater than the Iliad is born.
Sextus Propertius, Elegies, II, xxxiv, 65–66
Epic poetry, Os Lusíadas (1572), Canto I
Original
Cesse tudo o que a Musa antiga canta, Que outro valor mais alto se alevanta.
Os Lusíadas (1572)
Source: Os Lusíadas, canto I
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Luís de Camões 69
Portuguese poet 1524–1580Related quotes
L'homme qui peut empreindre perpétuellement la pensée dans le fait est un homme de génie; mais l'homme qui a le plus de génie ne le déploie pas à tous les instants, il ressemblerait trop à Dieu.
Source: A Daughter of Eve (1839), Ch. 3: The Story of a Happy Woman.
“The East is rising and the West is declining.”
2020s
“Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.”
Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)
Context: Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever. Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
Fancy in Nubibus
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Leadership & Success quotes, http://www.sheikhmohammed.co.ae/vgn-ext-templating/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=d2778960a5a11310VgnVCM1000004d64a8c0RCRD&appInstanceName=default, sheikhmohammed.ae.
“All our thoughts and beliefs are somehow hollow until they find expression in action.”
The Transition Timeline: for a local, resilient future, (2009), p. 167 http://www.darkoptimism.org/books.html#TheTransitionTimeline
“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.”
As quoted in "The right to be downright offensive" by Jonathan Duffy in BBC News Magazine (21 December 2004) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4114497.stm