afflict

Verb

Meaning

To strike or cast down; to overthrow.

To inflict some great injury or hurt upon, causing continued pain or mental distress; to trouble grievously; to torment.

To make low or humble.

Afflicted.

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Are you angry? Be angry at your sins, beat your soul, afflict your conscience, but strict in judgement and a terrible punisher of your own sins. This is the benefit of anger, wherefore God placed it in us. John Chrysostom

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong. John Kenneth Galbraith

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it. Martin Luther

Theres no such thing as ageing gracefully. I dont meet people who want to get Alzheimers disease, or who want to get cancer or arthritis or any of the other things that afflict the elderly. Ageing is bad for you, and we better just actually accept that. Aubrey de Grey

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism. Robert Frost

Little things console us because little things afflict us. Blaise Pascal

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