Émile Durkheim

1858–1917 · lived 59 years

n. 1858-04-15, Épinal · m. 1917-11-15, Paris

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Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which it springs is a general one, we cannot condemn it without condemning ourselves; we are too saturated with it not partly to excuse it.

Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.

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