“That if weak women went astray,
Their stars were more in fault than they.”
Hans Carvel (1700).
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“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
Cassius, Act I, scene ii.
Variant: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Source: Julius Caesar

Foreword to The Dreaded Comparison: Animal Slavery and Human Slavery (1996) by Marjorie Spiegel, p. 14 http://books.google.com/books?ei=je4zTPjrBcmTnQfXmMCLBA&ct=result&id=8u_tAAAAMAAJ&dq=dreaded+comparison+%22exist+for+their+own%22&q=%22exist+for+their+own%22.

Narrated Abu Sa'id al-Khudri, in Bukhari, Volume 1, Book 06, Number 301
Sunni Hadith

“Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.”

“It is more profitable to be mindful of our own faults than of those of our age.”
Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)