The greatest advantage in gambling lies in not playing at all.

- Gerolamo Cardano

Mathematics, however, is, as it were, its own explanation; this, although it may seem hard to accept, is nevertheless true, for the recognition that …

- Gerolamo Cardano

To throw in a fair game at Hazards only three-spots, when something great is at stake, or some business is the hazard, is a natural occurrence and de…

- Gerolamo Cardano

By these pleasures it is permitted to relax the mind with play, in turmoils of the mind, or when our labors are light, or in great tension, or as a m…

- Gerolamo Cardano

Smell alone amongst the senses can either destroy or quite remake a man.

- Gerolamo Cardano

Those arts which are, to be sure, not finite, as geometry and arithmetic, do not suffer adornment; others, contrarily, are rather subject to division…

- Gerolamo Cardano