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

Luck is believing you’re lucky. 

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

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

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

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

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

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

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. 

Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.

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.

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

A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.