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“O friends, to a good place we've come to live, come in springtime! In that place a very brief moment! So brief is life!”

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“We will pass away. I, Nezahualcoyotl, say, enjoy! Do we really live on earth? Ohuaya, ohuaya. Not forever on earth, only a brief time here! Even jades fracture; even gold ruptures, even quetzal plumes tear: Not forever on earth: only a brief time here! Ohuaya, ohuaya.”

Poetry Mortality Carpe Diem Time Passing Enjoying Life Aztecs

Author:Nezahualcóyotl

“The pleasures and riches of this life are but loaned, their substance is vain, their appearance illusory; and so true is this that I ask thee for an answer to these questions: What has become of Cihuapan? Of the brave Quantzintecomatzin? Of Conahuatzin? What of all these people? Perhaps these very words have already passed into another life. Would that we who are now united by the ties of love and friendship could foresee the sharp edge of death, for nothing is certain, and the future ever brings changes.”

Poetry Humility Carpe Diem Time Passing Aztecs Humility Vs Vanity

Author:Nezahualcóyotl

“Some readers who have visited New Spain, and other interested persons who have not, may be aware that Mexico was a very large city, built in the water like Venice, and governed by a great prince called Montezuma, who was a king of many neighbouring lands and ruled over the whole of New Spain, which is a country twice the size of out own.”

Aztecs Conquistadors Mesoamerica

Book:The Conquest of New Spain

Source: The Conquest of New Spain

“And as we came among the houses we saw how large a town it was, larger than any we had yet seen, and were fll of admiration. It was so green with vegetation that it looked like a garden; and its streets were so full of men and women who had some out to see us that we gave thanks to God for the discovery of such a country.”

Mexico Aztecs Mesoamerica

Book:The Conquest of New Spain

Source: The Conquest of New Spain

“Letters and diaries sometimes bring us close to grand moments or touching scenes in the history of Euro-Americans, but harkening back to the thoughts and feelings of the less powerful, we meet only silence”

Invaders Indigenous Peoples Aztecs

Book:Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs

Source: Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs

“When the Spaniards first arrived in Mexico, natives bearing incense burners were assigned to accompany them wherever they went. The Spaniards thought it was a mark of divine honour. We know from native sources that they found the newcomers’ smell unbearable.”

Mexico Colonialism Aztecs

Book:Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Source: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“How much blood was shed! It was our father’s blood! And what for? Why was it done? Learn it once and for all: because they want to impose themselves upon us, because they are utterly gold hungry, voracious of what belongs to others: our chiefdoms, our revered women and daughters, and our lands.” (160)”

Aztecs Mexican History

Author:Miguel León-Portilla

“As is well known but quickly forgotten, the victors ordinarily write history. The losers are usually silenced or, if this is impossible, they are dismissed as liars, censored for being traitors, or left to circulate harmlessly in the confined spaces of the defeated.” (xi)”

Aztecs Mexican History

Author:Miguel León-Portilla

“You haven't won an argument if you've lost the person; the loudest voice in the room is usually the weakest mind.”

Relationships Humility Communication Empathy Conflict Resolution

Book:The Frictionless Life: 25 Essays on Character, Virtue, and the Art of Being Unshakable: Stop Chasing the Hustle. Start Building a Soul.

Source: The Frictionless Life: 25 Essays on Character, Virtue, and the Art of Being Unshakable: Stop Chasing the Hustle. Start Building a Soul.

“Virtually all the accounts of the Aztec Empire were written by the Spaniards who overthrew it, so they have to be read with considerable skepticism. It is all the more important, then, to be able to examine what we can consider unadulterated Aztec sources, the things made by them that have survived.”

History Aztecs Aztec Empire

Book:A History of the World in 100 Objects

Source: A History of the World in 100 Objects