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.

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. 

Luck takes the step that no one sees.

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

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

There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate: when he can’t afford it, and when he can.

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

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

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

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

We do not suffer by accident. 

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

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