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 is believing you’re lucky. 

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

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

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

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

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

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

Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.

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

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

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

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