But the cheerfulness of my mind, which comes from the recollection of all my philosophical contemplation, counterbalances all these afflictions".
Of all the afflictions that fall upon us, few remain as misunderstood and stigmatized as those that affect the mind.
Yet malaria kills far more people each year than AIDS or landmines or scores of other diseases, terrible as all these afflictions are.
I've heard some of them complain about hangovers, which is like having a medical man tell you all his afflictions while you're dying of yours….
The pair finally met in November 1996 after they had each survived and suffered through either years in prison, knockout defeats, addiction, white tiger attack, bankruptcy and all the afflictions that bless the houses of troubled boxing men.
Gather all the afflictions in the world, says the Midrash, and poverty would outweigh them all.
In the seventies, child abuse was reframed as an "all-American affliction": "individually rooted, described as an illness, and solvable by occasional doses of therapeutic conversation".
Walt thinks diarrhea kills more boys than all the other afflictions combined.
Here she was confronted with all the dreaded afflictions of old age: disability, dependency, loneliness.
Add to that all the other afflictions common to business travelers like jet lag, sleepless nights in motels, and the stress of meetings on the run, and you have a deadly formula for highway accidents.
