“The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.” MenGreaterConstitutionSeriesRoundsVicesComplainingFollyDeceitUnhappinessFraudInherentPettyDegradeKnaves Author:Christian Nestell Bovee
“People complain of the unequal distribution of wealth [but it is a far greater] injustice that any one man should have the power to write so many brilliant essays... There is no one who writes like [Thomas Huxley].” PeopleThinkingMenShouldWritingWealthGreaterShould HaveInjusticeBrilliantComplainingOne ManEssaysDistributionHuxleyDistribution Of Wealth Author:Charles Darwin
“Don't make it necessary for me to complain about you to Christ crucified. (There is no one else I can complain to, since there is no one greater than you on earth.” I CanEarthChristGreaterComplainingSpeaking Up Author:St. Catherine of Siena
“Some people act as if there were a penalty for carrying concealed troubles. They exhibit them at every opportunity, begging for sympathy, even condescending to accept pity. Such persons never realize that the very ones to whom they are complaining are often struggling under a burden greater than their own.” PeopleIfsPersonsOpportunityRealizingAcceptingStruggleGreaterTroubleBurdenComplainingPityPenaltiesConcealedBeggingExhibitsCondescending Author:Alice Hegan Rice
“But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through their alliances with words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words. But words turn and twist the understanding. This it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences inactive. Words are mostly cut to the common fashion and draw the distinctions which are most obvious to the common understanding. Whenever an understanding of greater acuteness or more diligent observation would alter those lines to suit the true distinctions of nature, words complain.” MenBelieveReasonPhilosophyTurnsNamesBeliefLanguageUnderstandingLinesCommonGreaterCuttingFashionDrawsObviousComplainingSuitsObservationDistinctionIdolsTwistsAlliancesDiligentTroublesome Author:Francis Bacon
“When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before.” NaturalGreaterEffectsTradeProfitProsperityComplainingDecayEmployedDiminishMerchants Book:The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Source: The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
“No complaining about how hard it is to write, we are all so, so lucky to write, to sit down, inside, and write words on paper. There is no greater freedom, no greater good, nothing that brings more joy.” WritingHardJoyGreaterLuckyPaperComplainingSo LuckyGreater GoodWords On PaperNo Complaining Author:Isabel Allende