On the Causes of Frequent Suicide: A Psychological Treatise

expenditure, no prosperity of the state can flourish. But if only people always knew when to stop at the right time! Even the most innocent things result in great harm through abuse. And thus it becomes clear to us that increased luxury, though something innocent in itself, becomes a cause of suicide. Ridiculous vanity seizes one person, so that he would like to appear as more than he really is, wanting to be considered a member of a higher rank in daily interaction and on extraordinary occasions. Foolish pride takes possession of another and is unfortunately announced in the dangerous resolve not to yield to those who stand in the same rank as he or who share the same descent in terms of outer splendor and exaggerated expenditure, although