"Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them."

"Crime is normal because a society exempt from it is utterly impossible."

"It is society that has made us what we are; it is society that, through its institutions, educates us, shapes our thoughts, and determines our actions."

"One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature. When one f…"

"Moral rules are not arbitrary decrees, but conditions of social life."