| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 834 |
| AUTHOR: | Francisco Pizarro (c. 1476–1541) |
| QUOTATION: | Friends and comrades! On that side [south] are toil, hunger, nakedness, the drenching storm, desertion, and death; on this side ease and pleasure. There lies Peru with its riches; here, Panama and its poverty. Choose, each man, what best becomes a brave Castilian. For my part, I go to the south. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | FRANCISCO PIZARRO.—This English translation of a 1527 manuscript is in William H. Prescott, History of the Conquest of Peru, vol. 1, p. 263 (1848). |
| SUBJECTS: | Guilt |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | |
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