Su principal deber es procurar su propia conservación, sus principales cuidados son los que se debe a sí mismo; y después que adquiere uso de razón, … - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Gambling is only the resource of those who do not know what to do with themselves

Der Mensch ist frei geboren, und überall ist er in Ketten. Mancher glaubt, er sei der Herr der anderen, und ist trotzdem mehr Sklave als sie.

I have never believed that man’s freedom consists in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do, and this is the freedom I have always sought after and often achieved, the freedom by virtue of which I have most scandalized my contemporaries. For they, being active, busy, ambitious, detesting freedom in others and not desiring it for themselves, as long as they can sometimes have their way, or rather prevent others from having theirs, they force themselves all their lives to do what they do not want to do and are willing to endure any servitude in order to command