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

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

Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.

Luck takes the step that no one sees.

Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.

There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate: when he can’t afford it, and when he can.

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

We do not suffer by accident. 

Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.

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

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

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. 

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.