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
“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
“Green, John. (2012). The Fault in Our Stars. New York, New York: Penguin Group, 313..”
References
“To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves.”
Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727)
Source: Four Hundred Billion Stars (1988), Chapter 1 “Camp Zero” (p. 38)
“Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader,
are your own nature reflected in them.”
Rumi Daylight (1990)
“That if weak women went astray,
Their stars were more in fault than they.”
Hans Carvel (1700).
First Mansions, Ch. 1, as translated by E. Allison Peers (1961) p. 18
Interior Castle (1577)
Context: It is no small pity, and should cause us no little shame, that, through our own fault, we do not understand ourselves, or know who we are. Would it not be a sign of great ignorance, my daughters, if a person were asked who he was, and could not say, and had no idea who his father or mother was, or from what country he came? Though that is a great stupidity, our own is incomparably greater if we make no attempt to discover what we are, and only know that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are — those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty. All our interest is centred in the rough setting of the diamond and in the outer wall of the castle – that is to say in these bodies of ours.
