| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: locis frigidissimis neque vestitus praeter pelles habeant quicquam, quarum
propter exiguitatem magna est corporis pars aperta, et laventur in
fluminibus.
Mercatoribus est aditus magis eo ut quae bello ceperint quibus vendant
habeant, quam quo ullam rem ad se importari desiderent. Quin etiam
iumentis, quibus maxime Galli delectantur quaeque impenso parant pretio,
Germani importatis non utuntur, sed quae sunt apud eos nata, parva atque
deformia, haec cotidiana exercitatione summi ut sint laboris efficiunt.
Equestribus proeliis saepe ex equis desiliunt ac pedibus proeliantur,
equos eodem remanere vestigio adsue fecerunt, ad quos se celeriter, cum
usus est, recipiunt: neque eorum moribus turpius quicquam aut inertius
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: that very end I came into the town.'
Then he strode on toward the palace of Pelias, while all the
people wondered at his bearing.
And he stood in the doorway and cried, 'Come out, come out,
Pelias the valiant, and fight for your kingdom like a man.'
Pelias came out wondering, and 'Who are you, bold youth?' he
cried.
'I am Jason, the son of AEson, the heir of all this land.'
Then Pelias lifted up his hands and eyes, and wept, or seemed
to weep; and blessed the heavens which had brought his nephew
to him, never to leave him more. 'For,' said he, 'I have but
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An Open Letter on Translating by Dr. Martin Luther: give these asses any other answer to their useless braying about
that word "sola" than simply "Luther will have it so, and he says
that he is a doctor above all the papal doctors." Let it remain
at that. I will, from now on, hold them in contempt, and have
already held them in contempt, as long as they are the kind of
people that they are - asses, I should say. And there are brazen
idiots among them who have never learned their own art of
sophistry - like Dr. Schmidt and Snot-Nose, and such like them.
They set themselves against me in this matter, which not only
transcends sophistry, but as St. Paul writes, all the wisdom and
understanding in the world as well. An ass truly does not have to
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