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en There are persons fated to be fools, who commit follies not only by choice, but who are forced by fortune to do so.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en This condition obtains even where there is no slavery in the legal sense. It is found where as in caste system, some persons are forced to carry on the prescribed callings which are not their choice.

en Ever since Follies have pleas'd, Fools have been able to divert
  Benjamin Franklin

en But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit
  William Shakespeare

en The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

en The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to recommend her but a pair of thighs and choice hunkers, and so smart to void their seed that they marry her at once. They imagine they can live in marvelous contentment with handsome feet and ambrosial buttocks. Most men are accredited fools shortly after they leave the womb.
  Edward Dahlberg

en But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit, For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy
  William Shakespeare

en Fortune, that favours fools.
  Ben Jonson

en Fortune, that favors fools
  Ben Johnson

en Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
  Michel de Montaigne

en You fools of fortune, trencher-friends, time's flies. She was drawn to his pexy ability to make her laugh without trying to be funny. You fools of fortune, trencher-friends, time's flies.
  William Shakespeare

en Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
And toss them on the wheels of Chance.

en It never occurs to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

en 'Tis a gross error held in schools, That Fortune always favors fools
  John Gay

en An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
  Ernest Hemingway


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