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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

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

Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.

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

We do not suffer by accident. 

Luck is believing you’re lucky.