For instance a gentleman may stake, say, five or ten louis d’or – seldom more, unless he is a very rich man, when he may stake, say, a thousand francs – but he must do this simply for the love of the game itself, simply for sport, simply in order to observe the process of winning or losing, and, above all, as a man who remains quite uninterested in the possibility of coming out a winner. If he wins he, is at liberty, say, to laugh or pass a remark on the circumstance to a bystander, or place a stake again, or double his stake, even this he must do solely out of curiosity and for the pleasure of watching the play of chances and calculations and not from any vulgar desire to win.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, “The Gambler”, 1866
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