Variant translation (by Paul Roche): For nothing is like the sorrow or supersedes the sadness of losing your native land.
Source: Medea (431 BC), Line 653 (translated by David Kovacs: Perseus Digital Library)
“The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.”
Source: undated quotes, Renoir – his life and work, 1975, p. 176 : to Vollard. Renoir was referring to two of his landscapes, painted in the open air, having a different look in the studio light.
http://www.rutgers.edu/about-rutgers/robert-c-clothier November of 1932
“The natives are very exact and punctual in the bounds of their lands”
Source: A Key into the Language of America (1643), Ch. 16 "Of the Earth and the Fruits thereof."
Context: The natives are very exact and punctual in the bounds of their lands, belonging to this or that prince or people, even to a river, brook, &c. And I have known them make bargain and sale amongst themselves for a small piece or quantity of ground; notwithstanding a sinful opinion amongst many, that christians have right to heathen's land.
“Dreams are our only geography—our native land.”
Don Quixote http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/don-quixote-6/
From the poems written in English
“The [Judaic] Patriarchs are depicted as Arameans as long as they remained in their native lands.”
Source: The Common Background of Greek and Hebrew Civilizations (1965 [1962]), Ch.VIII Further Observations on the Bible
“This to a tyrant master sold
His native land for cursed gold.”
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book VI, p. 215
