Things were so much better

"You hear people complaining about this present day and age because things were SO much better in former times.

"I wonder what would happen if they could be taken back to the days of their ancestors - would we not still hear them complaining?

"You may think past ages were good, but it is only because you are not living in them."

from a sermon by St. Augustine, who died in the year 430

(from today's Office of Readings - emphasis added)