Casts Quote by Joseph Addison
“It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of, before that which would fall to them by such a division. [as they realise their problems could be worse!]”
![“A doctrine which advocates indifference to wealth and to the comforts of life, and a contempt for suffering and death [the Stoics'] is quite unintelligible to the vast majority of men, since that majority has never known wealth or the comforts of life; and to despise suffering would mean to…” quote by Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8cb/anton-chekhov-298_death_a-doctrine-which-advocates-indifference_452895.jpg)
