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Originally Posted by Falcao
From The Life and Death of Julius Agricola by Cornelius Tacitus
Translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb (1876)
Whatever we loved, whatever we admired in Agricola, survives, and will survive in the hearts of men, in the succession of the ages, in the fame that waits on noble deeds. Over many indeed, of those who have gone before, as over the inglorious and ignoble, the waves of oblivion will roll; Agricola, made known to posterity by history and tradition, will live for ever.
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Interesting quote.
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Originally Posted by Falcao
From Relato con un fondo de agua [Story with a water background] by Julio Cortázar (translated by me).
One speaks with you and at the same time is like being alone, and maybe this is why one speaks with you like I'm doing now.
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Originally Posted by Falcao
From Historia de los heterodoxos espańoles [History of the Spanish Heterodox] by Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo (translated by me)
Spain, evangelist of half of the orb; Spain: hammer of heretics, light of Trent, sword of Rome, cradle of St Ignatius ...; that is our greatness and our unit; we do not have another one. The day in which it finishes of getting lost, Spain will return to the regionalism of the arévacos and of the kings of taifas.
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Thanks for those two as well, and for the personal translation.