Wikitionary – Reflection: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/reflection
Wikitionary – Réflexion: https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/réflexion
For example, when Brutus, in Julius Caesar, says, “No Cassius, the eye not sees itself / But by reflection, by some other things,” he uses vowels repeatedly to get his message across–one does not see himself through his own eyes, but through the viewpoints of others.
Cas. Tell me, good Brutus, can you see your face?
Bru. No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself
But by reflection, by some other things.
Cas. ‘Tis just,
And it is very much lamented, Brutus,
That you have no such mirrors as will turn
Your hidden worthiness into your eye,
That you might see your shadow. I have heard
Where many of the best respect in Rome
(Except immortal Caesar), speaking of Brutus
And groaning underneath this age’s yoke,
Have wish’d that noble Brutus had his eyes.
Bru. Into what dangers would you lead me, Cassius,
That you would have me seek into myself
For that which is not in me?
Cas. Therefore, good Brutus, be prepar’d to hear;
And since you know you cannot see yourself
So well as by reflection, I, your glass,
Will modestly discover to yourself
That of yourself which you yet know not of.
