| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Proverbs 30: 15 The horseleech hath two daughters: 'Give, give.' There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four that say not: 'Enough':
Proverbs 30: 16 The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not satisfied with water; and the fire that saith not: 'Enough.'
Proverbs 30: 17 The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young vultures shall eat it.
Proverbs 30: 18 There are three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:
Proverbs 30: 19 The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a young woman.
Proverbs 30: 20 So is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith: 'I have done no wickedness.'
Proverbs 30: 21 For three things the earth doth quake, and for four it cannot endure:
Proverbs 30: 22 For a servant when he reigneth; and a churl when he is filled with food;
Proverbs 30: 23 For an odious woman when she is married; and a handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
Proverbs 30: 24 There are four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise:
Proverbs 30: 25 The ants are a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Apology by Plato: or demigods;--must I not? To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume
that your silence gives consent. Now what are spirits or demigods? Are
they not either gods or the sons of gods?
Certainly they are.
But this is what I call the facetious riddle invented by you: the demigods
or spirits are gods, and you say first that I do not believe in gods, and
then again that I do believe in gods; that is, if I believe in demigods.
For if the demigods are the illegitimate sons of gods, whether by the
nymphs or by any other mothers, of whom they are said to be the sons--what
human being will ever believe that there are no gods if they are the sons
of gods? You might as well affirm the existence of mules, and deny that of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Agesilaus by Xenophon: and horses in large numbers for the chase and warfare, he persuaded
his sister Cynisca to rear chariot horses,[9] and thus by her
victory[10] showed that to keep a stud of that sort, however much it
might be a mark of wealth, was hardly a proof of manly virtue. And
surely in the following opinion we may discern plainly the generosity
of him who entertained it. To win victories over private persons in a
chariot race does not add one tittle to a man's renown. He, rather,
who holds his city dear beyond all things else, who has himself sunk
deep into the heart of her affections, who has obtained to himself all
over the world a host of friends and those the noblest, who can outdo
his country and comrades alike in the race of kindliness, and his
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