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Irrespective of any external, regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.

Emile Durkheim

When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary. When mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.
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Force Law Necessary
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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Comfortable Greatness Harsh Time
The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.
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Activity Man Meditation Surrounding
The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile. They are dissipated in futile imaginings, producing nothing external to themselves.
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Activity Appearance Imagination Man Meditation Production Surround
When man discovered the mirror, he began to lose his soul.
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Beginning Discover Lose Man Mindset Mirror
Social life comes from a double source, the likeness of consciences and the division of social labour.
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Division Labour Life Social Source
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.
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Act Expression General Personal Phenomenon Social Suicide Victim
The Christian conceives of his abode on Earth in no more delightful colors than the Jainist sectarian. He sees in it only a time of sad trial; he also thinks that his true country is not of this world.
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Country Delight Earth Sadness Time Trial True World
There is no sociology worthy of the name which does not possess a historical character.
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Character History Name Sociology Worth
Even one well-made observation will be enough in many cases, just as one well-constructed experiment often suffices for the establishment of a law.
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Enough Establishment Experiment Law Observation Willing
A monomaniac is a sick person whose mentality is perfectly healthy in all respects but one; he has a single flaw, clearly localized. At times, for example, he has an unreasonable and absurd desire to drink or steal or use abusive language; but all his other acts and all his other thoughts are strictly correct.
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Absurd Drink Health Himself Language Perfection Person Sick Thinking Time
Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description.
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Describe Description Human Science Scientific Society Type
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.
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Fact Mindset Oneself Regard Tolerance
It is only by historical analysis that we can discover what makes up man, since it is only in the course of history that he is formed.
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Analysis Built Himself History Make Up Man
A person is not merely a single subject distinguished from all the others. It is especially a being to which is attributed a relative autonomy in relation to the environment with which it is most immediately in contact.
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Autonomy Distinguish Person Relative Subject
Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain.
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Cry Miniature Pain Science Social Sociology

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