No, I am that I am, and they that level
At my abuses, reckon up their own;
I may be straight, though they themselves be bevel.

--Sonnet 121

“I pray thee, cease thy counsel,Which falls into mine ears as profitlessAs water…”

“Presume not that I am the thing I was.”

“Haşarı oğlanlar için sinek neyse, biz de tanrılar için oyuz. Bizi kendi zevkler…”

“You lie.”