Too Cheerful A Morality Is

Too Cheerful A Morality Is A Loose Morality; It Is Appropriate Only To Decadent Peoples And Is Found Only Among Them.

The Wise Man, Knowing How To Enjoy Achieved Results Without Having Constantly To Replace Them With Others, Finds In Them An Attachment To Life In The Hour Of Difficulty.

Man Is A Moral Being, Only Because He Lives In Society. Let All Social Life Disappear And Morality Will Disappear With It.

There Is No Society Known Where A More Or Less Developed Criminality Is Not Found Under Different Forms. No People Exists Whose Morality Is Not Daily Infringed Upon. We Must Therefore Call Crime Necessary And Declare That It Cannot Be Non-existent, That The Fundamental Conditions Of Social Organization, As They Are Understood, Logically Imply It.

Although Our Moral Conscience Is A Part Of Our Consciousness, We Do Not Feel Ourselves On An Equality With It. In This Voice Which Makes Itself Heard Only To Give Us Orders And Establish Prohibitions, We Cannot Recognize Our Own Voices; The Very Tone In Which It Speaks To Us Warns Us That It Expresses Something Within Us That Is Not Of Ourselves.