Even One Well-made Observation Will Be Enough

Our Excessive Tolerance With Regard To Suicide Is Due To The Fact That, Since The State Of Mind From Which It Springs Is A General One, We Cannot Condemn It Without Condemning Ourselves; We Are Too Saturated With It Not Partly To Excuse It.

A Social Fact Is Every Way Of Acting, Fixed Or Not, Capable Of Exercising On The Individual An External Constraint; Or Again, Every Way Of Acting Which Is General Throughout A Given Society, While At The Same Time Existing In Its Own Right Independent Of Its Individual Manifestations.

It Is Only By Historical Analysis That We Can Discover What Makes Up Man, Since It Is Only In The Course Of History That He Is Formed.

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

Maniacal Suicide. —this Is Due To Hallucinations Or Delirious Conceptions. The Patient Kills Himself To Escape From An Imaginary Danger Or Disgrace, Or To Obey A Mysterious Order From On High, Etc.