Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.

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

Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.

Luck takes the step that no one sees.

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

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

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

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.

We do not suffer by accident. 

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

Some folks want their luck buttered.

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