We are nothing but bricks from our cultural molds

Condition A must be in place for action B to take place

You are not what you want; you are what you have been made to be

We are the products of fate, from beginning to end

Fate seems to scourge some people with her furies, while it ravishes others with her graces with none having done absolutely nothing to suffer the furies or merit the graces.

We don’t do what we want to; we do what we are allowed to