For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?

Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent. Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you - alas, it is true of almost every one of us!

Of course I shall go astray often...for who does not make mistakes? But I cannot go far wrong for I have seen the truth.

For I love the empress of my soul. I love and I cannot but love. You yourself see the whole of me. I shall fly to her, fall down before her: you were right to walk past me.. farewell and forget your victim, never trouble yourself more!

But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit.