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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

The wheel of Fortune tourneth as a ball; Sodeyn clymbyng axeth a sodeyn fall.

Lydgate, John

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

Horace

'Tis hard if all is false that I advance, A fool must now and then be right by chance.

Cowper, William

The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost.

Confucius

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

Antrim, Minna

Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.

James, William

A brute kills for pleasure. A fool kills from hate.

Heinlein, Robert A.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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