William Shakespeare:

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.

— William Shakespeare Early Modern

Greatest playwright in English

From 'Julius Caesar', rejecting fatalism.

1599

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