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

Luck takes the step that no one sees.

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

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. 

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

Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.

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

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

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

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

Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.

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