Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.

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

Some folks want their luck buttered.

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

Luck is believing you’re lucky. 

Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

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

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

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.

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

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

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