Daily quote by Portugal

• As armas e os barões assinalados
  Que da ocidental praia lusitana
  Por mares nunca de antes navegados
  Passaram ainda além da Taprobana
  Em perigos e guerras esforçados
  Mais do que prometia a força humana
  E entre gente remota edificaram
  Novo Reino, que tanto sublimaram.
  • Arms and the Heroes, who from Lisbon's shore,
    Thro' seas where sail was never spread before,
    Beyond where Ceylon lifts her spicy breast,
    And waves her woods above the watery waste,
    With prowess more than human forc'd their way
    To the fair kingdoms of the rising day:
    What wars they wag'd, what seas, what dangers past,
    What glorious empire crown'd their toils at last.
    • Luís de Camões, opening lines of The Lusiads (1572), as translated by William Julius Mickle (1776).