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Games... in which the winning depends principally on chance... are of their own simple nature bad and reprehensible... Gain ought to be a reward for labor but here it is made the reward of chance. Chance deserves no reward whatever since it in no way depends on us.

...the world vilifies holy devotion as much as it can. It pictures devout persons as having discontented, gloomy, sullen faces and claims that devotion brings on depression and unbearable moods.