Showing posts with label Julius Caesar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Julius Caesar. Show all posts

Sunday, May 26, 2013

My Favorite Line from Julius Caesar

 
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus; and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs, and peep about
To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings. (1.2.135)

Though I have yet to read this masterpiece, I do love the above. It's an uplifting message of self-empowerment through recognition that the ultimate control of one's fate lies in one's own hands, not in the stars or with God(s).