回顾总是今不如昔
人们最爱用这一种思想来欺骗自己;往往当我们因为自己行为不慎而遭逢不幸的时候,我们就会把我们的灾祸归怨于日月星辰,好像我们做恶人也是命中注定,做傻瓜也是出于上天的旨意,做无赖,做盗贼,做叛徒,都是受到天体运行的影响,酗酒,造谣,奸淫,都有一颗什么星在那儿主持操纵,我们无论干什么罪恶的行为,全都是因为有一种超自然的力量在冥冥之中驱策着我们。– 李尔王 第一幕 第二场 EDMUND: This is the excellent foppery of the world that when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeit of our own behavior — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars, as if we were villains by 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 a divine thrusting-on. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star! My father compounded with my mother under the dragon’s tail and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows I am rough and lecherous. Fut, I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing. ...