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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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Emile Durkheim
Age: 59 †
Born: 1858
Born: January 1
Died: 1917
Died: January 1
Anthropologist
Historian Of Religion
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When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable.
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It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand.
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