AFONSO DE ALBUQUERQUE, o César do Oriente retweetledi

'[F]rom a reasonable point of view the boundless expansion of Portugal was an absurdity, a dangerous form of quixotry. But it is part of the irrational nature of heroism that whenever a man or a people undertakes a task that exceeds the bounds of possibility, the energies grow to an unexpected degree. Never perhaps did any nation concentrate its forces more splendidly than did Portugal at the close of the fifteenth century.'
Stefan Zweig,
Magellan

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