Quote by Emile Durkheim
Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate onl

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

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Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character. – Emile Durkheim

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Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth. – Emile Durkheim

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Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon. – Emile Durkheim

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Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. – Oscar Wilde

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Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant — the digitalis of failure. – Elbert Hubbard

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The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable. – Margery Allingham

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Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly. – Ambrose Bierce

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