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

—Seneca the Younger, c. 45

We do not suffer by accident. 

—Jane Austen, 1813

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

—Charlotte Brontë, 1847

Some folks want their luck buttered.

—Thomas Hardy, 1886

Luck is believing you’re lucky. 

—William Carlos Williams, 1947

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

—Martin Luther, c. 1540

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

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1963

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

—Thomas Browne, 1642

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

—Oscar Wilde, 1895

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

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

Luck takes the step that no one sees.

—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC

Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.

—Instructions of Ankhsheshonqy, c. 100 BC

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

—Cormac McCarthy, 2005