لا يأتي بؤس الإنسان من ضربةٍ واحدةٍ ساحقة من شرٍّ جارف، بل من مضايقاتٍ صغيرةٍ تتكرر باستمرار.

“The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.”Samuel Johnson — The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, (1787)