In money matters no relationship counts; money hardens all hearts.

- Matilde Serao

One starts gambling for a joke, out of curiosity, as a little challenge to fortune. One goes on, pricked to the quick by delusions, excited by vague …

- Matilde Serao

[Gambling] is a perfidious passion. ... It is bad for one to win, and bad not to win. ... it ends by setting your blood on fire, and to increase your…

- Matilde Serao