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

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

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

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. 

Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.

Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.

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

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

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

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

Luck is believing you’re lucky. 

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

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