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

—Seneca the Younger, c. 45

Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.

—David Hume, 1742

Luck takes the step that no one sees.

—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1938

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

—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BC

Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.

—Instructions of Ankhsheshonqy, c. 100 BC

Luck is believing you’re lucky. 

—William Carlos Williams, 1947

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

—Samuel Butler, c. 1890

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

—Arthur Griffiths, 1899

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. 

—Ovid, 8

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

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

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

—Oscar Wilde, 1895

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

—Calvin Coolidge, 1932
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