There is no such thing as 'social gambling.' Either you are there to cut the other bloke's heart out and eat it -- or you're a sucker. If you don't like this choice -- don't gamble.

Brainpower is the scarcest commodity and the only one of real value.

Never pick up a stray kitten . . . unless you've already made up your mind to be owned by it.

Take sex away from people. Make it forbidden, evil. Limit it to ritualistic breeding. Force it to back up into suppressed sadism. Then hand the people a scapegoat to hate. Let them kill a scapegoat occasionally for cathartic release. The mechanism is ages old. Tyrants used it centuries before the word "psychology" was ever invented. It works, too.

Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.

Must be yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please.

I have never been impressed by the formal schools of ethics.