It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.
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The wise man, knowing how to enjoy achieved results without having constantly to replace them with others, finds in them an attachment to life in the hour of difficulty.Emile Durkheim
While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order to obtain a firm enough grip upon individuals, but without succeeding, the latter, without mutual relationships, tumble over one another like so many liquid molecules, encountering no central energy to retain, fix and organize them.
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From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain.
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A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt.
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Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment brutally imposed on him, but by a conscience superior to his own . . .
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