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    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.
    —Emile Durkheim (1858–1917)

    Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked.
    Ambrose (c. 333–397)