Edmund: This is the excellent foppery of the world; that,
when we are sick in fortune, -- often the surfeit of
our own behaviour, -- we make guilty of our disasters
the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were
villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves,
thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance,
drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience
of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by
a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of
whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the
charge of a star!
King Lear, Act 1, Scene 2
when we are sick in fortune, -- often the surfeit of
our own behaviour, -- we make guilty of our disasters
the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were
villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves,
thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance,
drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience
of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by
a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of
whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the
charge of a star!
King Lear, Act 1, Scene 2
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