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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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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. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned. – Emile Durkheim

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

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A man who calls bullshit fertilizer. – Frank Dane

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Optimism

In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. – Daniel L. Reardon

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My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud. – Henry Rollins

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