“Achilles weeps. He cradles me, and will not eat, nor speak a word other than my name.”
Source: The Song of Achilles
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“Words that weep and tears that speak.”
The Prophet; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn", Thomas Gray, Progress of Poesy, iii. 3, 4.

“Sancho Panza by name, is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 30.

“The Bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me tame.”
Source: Hellsing, Vol. 01

“I, of set will, speak words the wise may learn,
To others, nought remember nor discern.”
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, lines 38–39 (tr. E. D. A. Morshead)
“My name, far more than it names me, reminds me of my name.”
Mi nombre, más que llamarme, me recuerda mi nombre.
Voces (1943)

This is how Christians treat the autocrat of the universe.
Letters of Voltaire and Frederick the Great (New York: Brentano's, 1927), trans. Richard Aldington, letter 215 from Frederick to Voltaire (1776-03-19)