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Author : David Hume

 : Essays Moral, Political, and Literary

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What is the meaning, then, of that principle, that a man, who, tired of life, and hunted by pain and misery, bravely overcomes all the natural terrors of death, and makes his escape from this cruel scene; that such a man, I say, has incurred the indignation of his creator, by encroaching on the office of divine providence, and disturbing the order of the universe?... Has not every one, of consequence, the free disposal of his own life? And may he not lawfully employ that power with which nature has endowed him?


     From : Part III. Essay IX. Of Suicide.

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