Casting lots causes contentions to cease, and keeps the mighty apart.

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

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

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

Luck takes the step that no one sees.

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

Good fortune is light as a feather, but nobody knows how to hold it up. Misfortune is heavy as the earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of its way.

Luck, in the great game of war, is undoubtedly lord of all.

We do not suffer by accident. 

Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.

Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.

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.