Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The sorrows of young Werther (№ 455772)

A person can endure joy, grief, pain only to a certain extent, and when this degree is exceeded, he perishes. This means that the question is not whether he is strong or weak, but whether he can endure the measure of his suffering, whether mental or physical, and, in my opinion, just as wildly say: that coward who takes his own life - how to call the coward of a man dying of a malignant fever.