Momento Quotes
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"Llega un momento en la vida en que, haga uno lo que haga, solamente aburre. Queda entonces una manera de recuperar el prestigio: morir."
adolfo bioy casares— There comes a moment in your life when, no matter what you do, you bore everybody else. There is only one way to get back the lost prestige. Dying.Fuente: Diario de la Guerra del Cerdo, 1969.
El Perú es desde este momento libre e independiente por la voluntad general de los pueblos y por la justicia de su causa que Dios defiende. ¡Viva la patria! ¡Viva la libertad! ¡Viva la independencia!
josé de san martín— From this moment on, Peru is free and independent by the general will of its people and by the justice of its cause that God defends. Long live the nation! Long live the freedom! Long live the independence!(Declaration of the Peruvian independence, July 28, 1821).
Servi peregrini, ut primum Galliæ fines penetraverint eodem momento liberi sunt.
— Foreign slaves, as soon as they come within the limits of Gaul, that moment they are free.
— Bodinus, Book I, Chapter V
Urbes constituit ætas: hora dissolvit: momento fit cinis: diu sylva. An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them. In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.
— Seneca, Quæstionum Naturalium, Book III. 27.
Mysore palace, which is certainly a good example of Indo-Sarcenic style of architecture – a blending of traditional and modern – is both a heritage monument of India’s princely past, and a momento of the maharaja’s lavish taste and spending.
— Aya Ikegame, in Princely India Re-imagined: A Historical Anthropology of Mysore from 1799 to ..., p. 120
