pulicis

Updated: May 4, 2025

But that is no reason why a man should indulge in fretful complaints, and, like Beresford, pull a long face over the Miseries of Human Life, and not a single hour is free from them; or still less, call upon the Deity at every flea-bite in pulicis morsu Deum invocare.

Arthur Schopenhauer - The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims