Mihai Eminescu – "Geniu pustiu"

Ce e femeia? Acest om care traieste pentru a-si spoi fata cu colori, vorba cu minciuna si ochii cu lacrimi inselatoare? O, sfinx ce plange cand te trada, ce rande in inima ei, cand ochii ei sunt plini de lacrimi.

William Shakespeare – "Julius Caesar" / Brutus

… for he loves to hear

That unicorns may be betrayed with trees,

And bears with glasses, elephants with holes,

Lions with toils, and men with flatterers;

But when I tell him he hates flatterers,

He says he does, being then most flattered.