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Edmund in Shakespeares' "King Lear" says:
"This is the excellent foppery of the world: that when we are sick in fortune -- often the surfeits of our own behavior -- we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars, as if we were villains on necessity. Fools by heavenly compulsion. Knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance. Drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence. And all that we are evil in by divine thrusting upon.
An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star!"
<simple translation: Man blames his own evil deeds upon everything except himself (but how wonderfully put by Sir William)>
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