| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Menexenus by Plato: obscurity of origin, nor honoured by reason of the opposite, as in other
states, but there is one principle--he who appears to be wise and good is a
governor and ruler. The basis of this our government is equality of birth;
for other states are made up of all sorts and unequal conditions of men,
and therefore their governments are unequal; there are tyrannies and there
are oligarchies, in which the one party are slaves and the others masters.
But we and our citizens are brethren, the children all of one mother, and
we do not think it right to be one another's masters or servants; but the
natural equality of birth compels us to seek for legal equality, and to
recognize no superiority except in the reputation of virtue and wisdom.
And so their and our fathers, and these, too, our brethren, being nobly
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: votre plaisir. C'est ridicule de dire cela. Moi j'ai eu un enfant.
Vous n'avez jamais eu d'enfant, meme d'une de vos esclaves. C'est
vous qui etes sterile, ce n'est pas moi.
HERODE. Taisez-vous. Je vous dis que vous etes sterile. Vous ne
m'avez pas donne d'enfant, et le prophete dit que notre mariage
n'est pas un vrai mariage. Il dit que c'est un mariage incestueux,
un mariage qui apportera des malheurs . . . J'ai peur qu'il n'ait
raison. Je suis sur qu'il a raison. Mais ce n'est pas le moment de
parler de ces choses. En ce moment-ci je veux etre heureux. Au
fait je le suis. Je suis tres heureux. Il n'y a rien qui me
manque.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tour Through Eastern Counties of England by Daniel Defoe: understand, the title is not settled by the creation to the eldest
son till he enjoys the title of earl with it, but that the other is
by the courtesy of England; however, this I take AD REFERENDUM.
From Colchester I took another step down to the coast; the land
running out a great way into the sea, south and south-east makes
that promontory of land called the Naze, and well known to seamen
using the northern trade. Here one sees a sea open as an ocean
without any opposite shore, though it be no more than the mouth of
the Thames. This point called the Naze, and the north-east point
of Kent, near Margate, called the North Foreland, making what they
call the mouth of the river and the port of London, though it be
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