Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
It's just business nothing personal.
The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.
Any man can turn traitor.
He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.
It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.