Twitter is a wonderful thing except that sometimes you can’t use the whole of a great quote.
The following is a larger bit of one quote that turned up in a minor flurry on the Ides of March. It was hardly a Shakespeare smack down but it was fun for a moment.
The quote below is part of a speech from Julius Caesar in which Cassius – he of the lean and hungry look – talks to Brutus about fate and destiny and the power that individuals have to change the course of events.
Here’s a bit more of it:
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 dishonorable 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.
- srbp -