![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!]](/assets/img/quote-photos/it-is-a-celebrated-thought-of-socrates-that-if-all-the-misfortunes-of-mankind-we.jpg)
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