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.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

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

Luck takes the step that no one sees.

Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.

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

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

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

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

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. 

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

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

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