《汉书·传·佞幸传》
石显趁机哭泣说： 陛下非常偏爱小人我，把政事交给我处理，下边大臣们无不嫉妒，他们老想陷害我；像这样上书害我的事肯定不止造一件，希望圣明的皇帝您要了解我的忠心和处境。
显因泣曰： 陛下过私小臣，属任以事，群下无不嫉妒欲陷害臣者，事类如此非一，唯独明主知之。
Shi Xian seized the opportunity to start crying and say: “Your Majesty is truly very fond of this insignificant person, and you’ve handed over the political affairs to me to deal with. All the ministers below are jealous, and they are always plotting to frame me; there will definitely be more than one occurrence of this sort of thing happening, so I hope that our wise emperor can see that I am loyal and understand my situation.”