Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.

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

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

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

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

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

Luck is believing you’re lucky. 

Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.

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

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

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

We do not suffer by accident. 

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