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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“When a nation which has long groaned under the intolerable yoke of a tyrant rises at last and throws off its chains, do you call that weakness? The man who, to rescue his house from the flames, finds his physical strength redoubled, so that he lifts burdens with ease which in the absence of excitement he could scarcely move; he who under the rage of an insult attacks and puts to flight half a score of his enemies,—are such persons to be called weak? My good friend, if resistance be strength, how can the highest degree of resistance be a weakness?”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
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The Sorrows of Young Werther The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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