Chance generally favors the prudent.

[Le hasard est ordinairement heureux pour l’homme prudent.]

Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French moralist, philosopher, essayist, poet
Pensées [Thoughts], ch. 10 “De l’Ordre et du Hasard, du Bien et du Mal [On Order, Chance, Good, and Evil],” ¶ 24 (1850 ed.) [tr. Attwell (1896), ¶ 147]
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