“The stars govern our conditions”

“It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.”

“Why are our bodies soft, and weak, and smoothBut that our soft conditions and our heartsShould well agree with our external parts?”

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”

“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.”

“Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not us that are squires of the night’s body be called thieves of the day’s beauty. Let us be Diana’s foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon, and let men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal.”