Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
Chance gives thoughts, and chance takes them away.
Like plants, most men have hidden properties that chance alone reveals.
No contingency anywhere in the universe; no indifference; no liberty. While we act, we are, at the same time, acted upon.
Play is experimenting with chance.
Cleopatra's nose: if it had been shorter the whole face of the earth would have been different.
People who want something strongly enough are almost always well served by chance.
Beauty is the harmony of chance and the good.
All human acts involve more chance than decision.
Chance is necessity hidden behind a veil.
It would seem that our actions have lucky or unlucky stars to which they owe a great part of the blame or praise which is given them.
Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.
