Freud still wanted to examine the relationship between repetition compulsion and the pleasure principle. Although compulsive behaviors evidently satisfied some sort of drive, they were a source of direct unpleasure. Somehow, "no lesson has been learnt from the old experience of these activities having led only to unpleasure. In spite of that, they are repeated, under pressure of a compulsion". Also noting repetitions in the lives of normal people—who appeared to be "pursued by a malignant fate or possessed by some daemonic power," likely alluding to the Latin motto "errare humanum est, perseverare autem diabolicum" ("to err is human, to persist committing errors is of the devil")—Freud concludes that the human psyche includes a compulsion to repeat that is independent of the pleasure principle.