This is my contribution to this thread there are actually lots of good ones but this one is personal and still trying to apply to my gambling session.
Hoping to recoup is what ruins the gambler.
Hoping to recoup is what ruins the gambler. Baltasar Gracián y Morales, a 17th century philosopher.
I'm surprised that this philosophy already exists in the 17th century I thought, just recently or in our generation where gambling is very rampant.