Quote of William Shakespeare - Men at some time are masters...

Biography - William Shakespeare:

English poet, playwright and actor.
Born: 1564 - Died: 1616
Period:
17th century
16th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom

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.

William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Julius Caesar

Note

"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."

Quote source: The Tragedy of Julius Caesar

Translation

(French, German)

Les hommes, à de certains moments, sont maîtres de leur sort ; et si notre condition est basse, la faute n'en est pas à nos étoiles ; elle en est à nous-mêmes.

William Shakespeare - Jules César

Der Mensch ist manchmal seines Schicksals Meister;
Nicht durch die Schuld der Sterne, lieber Brutus,
Durch eigne Schuld nur sind wir Schwächlinge;

William Shakespeare - Julius Caesar

Quotes about stars:

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and reverence, the more often and more steadily one reflects on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

Immanuel Kant - Critique of Practical Reason /

To the stars through difficulty.

The time has come to light the stars again.

Guillaume Apollinaire /

stars

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

Confucius /

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

Victor Hugo - Les Misérables /

It would seem that our actions have lucky or unlucky stars to which they owe a great part of the blame or praise which is given them.

François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims /

All about stars...

Quotes about oneself:

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Katherine Mansfield /

The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.

André Gide /

A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

Seneca - De Vita Beata /

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Michel de Montaigne - Essays /

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy /

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Robert Green Ingersoll /

All about oneself...

Quotes about man, all human beings:

Man is the future of man.

Francis Ponge /

No man is weak by choice.

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims /

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées /

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Blaise Pascal - Pensées /

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

John Locke - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding /

Any man can make mistakes.

Marcus Tullius Cicero - Philippicae /

All about man, all human beings...

William Shakespeare also said...

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

William Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice /

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark /

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark /

What's done cannot be undone.

William Shakespeare - Macbeth /

fact

Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.

William Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing /

What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;

William Shakespeare - Romeo und Julia /

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