Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. Ward No. 6 (№ 272364)

Teaching, preaching indifference to wealth, comforts of life, contempt for suffering and death, completely incomprehensible to the vast majority, as this majority knew neither riches, nor comforts in life; and to despise suffering would mean to him to despise the life, because the whole being of a person consists of feelings of hunger, cold, offense, loss and hamlet's fear of death. In these sensations of all life: it can be easy to hate her, but not to despise. Yeah, so, I repeat, the doctrine of the Stoics can never have a future, are progressing well, as you can see, from the beginning of the century to today struggle, sensitivity to pain, ability to respond to irritation...