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" What can be a man's state of mind who resolves to free himself from te burden of life? A burden often so pleasant to bear, for we cannot otherwise reason fairly on the subject....Human nature has its limits. It is able to wndure a certwin degree of joy, sorrow, and pain but becomes annihilatedas soon as this measure is exceeded...the question therefore is not whether man is strong or weak, but whether he is able to endure the measure of his sufferings. The suffering maybe moral or physical, and in my opinion it a just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote : What can be a man's state of mind who resolves to free himself from te burden of life? A burden often so pleasant to bear, for we cannot otherwise reason fairly on the subject....Human nature has its limits. It is able to wndure a certwin degree of joy, sorrow, and pain but becomes annihilatedas soon as this measure is exceeded...the question therefore is not whether man is strong or weak, but whether he is able to endure the measure of his sufferings. The suffering maybe moral or physical, and in my opinion it a just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.