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

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

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

We do not suffer by accident. 

Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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