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 method of passing the time. A reliable witness is Cicero,… — Gerolamo Cardano Copy Share Image
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 deserves to be so deemed; and even when they come up the same way for a second time if the throw be repeated. If the third and fourth plays are the same, surely… — Gerolamo Cardano Copy Share
Smell alone amongst the senses can either destroy or quite remake a man. — Gerolamo Cardano Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
By these pleasures it is permitted to relax the mind with play, in turmoils of the mind, or when our labors are light, or… — Gerolamo Cardano Copy Share Image
