In a game, just losing is almost as satisfying as just winning... In life the loser's score is always zero.

Without communication with the dead, a fully human life is not possible.

It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat than that he philosophize.

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.

Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.