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

—Seneca the Younger, c. 45

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

—Arthur Griffiths, 1899

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

—E.B. White, 1944

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

—Mark Twain, 1897

Luck takes the step that no one sees.

—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC

Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.

—Instructions of Ankhsheshonqy, c. 100 BC

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1938

Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.

—David Hume, 1742

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

—Charlotte Brontë, 1847

We do not suffer by accident. 

—Jane Austen, 1813

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

—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BC

Luck is believing you’re lucky. 

—William Carlos Williams, 1947

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

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906
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