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

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

To put one’s trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.

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

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. 

Luck is believing you’re lucky. 

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

Luck takes the step that no one sees.

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 brings in some boats that are not steered.

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

Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.

Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.