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. (Émile Durkheim)

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.

Émile Durkheim

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