To hold a throne is luck; to bestow it, virtue.

We do not suffer by accident. 

It is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear. 

Some folks want their luck buttered.

Luck is believing you’re lucky. 

When the abbot throws the dice, the whole convent will play.

It is so difficult not to become vain about one’s own good luck.

’Tis not a ridiculous devotion to say a prayer before a game at tables?

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

Misfortune, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.

Luck takes the step that no one sees.

Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.