Threshold

I'm stoic, I've been told, that I have a low threshold of pain.  But I think that should be a high threshold of pain, if the threshold is the point at which you begin to feel pain, or at least react to it.  This term is similar to the dreaded double negative;  I'm still working on the line from "The Man Without A Country" :  "He loved his country like no other man has loved her, but no man deserved less at her hands."