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!

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "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!" in the context of "William Shakespeare, in King Lear, Act 1, SCENE II. The Earl of Gloucester's castle." to mean that wisdom is timeless.