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

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

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

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

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

We do not suffer by accident. 

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

Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.

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

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

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

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

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.