“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.”
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Caesar is assassinated in the scene where the line is spoken, and Brutus is explaining the conspiracy to his soldiers. Shakespeare puts the rejection of divine causation in the mouth of men who are about to be killed for it, which is what gives the line its edge.
Source: Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 1