The French philosopher ...

The French philosopher Pierre-Hyacinthe Azaïs (1766-1845) formalized the statement that good and evil fortune are exactly balanced in that they produce for each person an equivalent result.
 Richard Arnold Epstein

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The earliest full-length account of a chariot race appears in Book xxiii of the Iliad.
 Richard Arnold Epstein
The essence of the phenomenon of gambling is decision making. The act of making a decision consists of selecting one course of action, or strategy, from among the set of admissible strategies.
 Richard Arnold Epstein