false dice

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Indeed, if some one plays with me for money he has stolen from me, I have the right to use false dice against him, because all that I win from him already belongs to me.

From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur

I hate the strain and the anxiety; and when unexpected expenses are foisted on me, I feel the world is playing with false dice.

From Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1 by Stevenson, Robert Louis

His false dice were then called in—and would you have me yield to his roguery what had been the fruits of a fair conflict?

From Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story by Simms, William Gilmore

We are alien to each other, and their virtues are even more repugnant to my taste than their falsehoods and false dice.

From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

If any one play with false dice or cheat, the monarch shall have him branded and banished.

From Hindu Law and Judicature from the Dharma-Sástra of Yájnavalkya by Edward Röer