Shakespeare

Cassius: 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 sometime are masters of their fates:

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,

But in ourselves, that we are underlings.

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Cassius: And why should Caesar be a tyrant then?

Poor man ! I know he would not be a wolf,

But that he sees the Romans are but sheep :

He were no lion, were not Romans hinds.

Those that with haste will make a mighty fire

Begin it with weak straws : what trash is Rome,

What rubbish and what offal, when it serves

For the base matter to illuminate

So vile a thing as Caesar !” William Shakespeare.

Excerpts from “Julius Caesar”.

Islander.