Daily Inspiration Quote by Thomas Fuller

Pain becomes negotiable the moment you put a price tag on it, and Fuller delivers that truth with the cold efficiency of a proverb. “Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money” isn’t a pep talk about hard work; it’s an early-modern diagnosis of how incentives reroute morality. The syntax matters: “never so painful” concedes the full horror of the task before the sentence pivots to its real subject, money’s power to recruit. Fuller compresses an entire theory of human pliability into a single, unsentimental guarantee.

The intent is partly cautionary, partly observational. As a clergyman writing in a century shaped by civil war, plague, and widening commerce, Fuller is surrounded by literal dirty work: soldiers for hire, informers, executioners, debt collectors, colonial extraction. His line acknowledges a social infrastructure built on paid discomfort, where suffering is outsourced and conscience can be subcontracted. The subtext isn’t “people are greedy” so much as “systems can buy compliance.” Money doesn’t just compensate; it anesthetizes, letting individuals reframe cruelty or degradation as “a job.”

There’s also a sly rebuke to respectable society. If anything can be done for money, then everyone who benefits from “painful business” has a stake in pretending it’s inevitable. Fuller’s compact cynicism anticipates a modern unease: the market’s ability to turn taboo into transaction, and to make the unthinkable feel merely billable.