| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Crito by Plato: many? Good men, and they are the only persons who are worth considering,
will think of these things truly as they occurred.
CRITO: But you see, Socrates, that the opinion of the many must be
regarded, for what is now happening shows that they can do the greatest
evil to any one who has lost their good opinion.
SOCRATES: I only wish it were so, Crito; and that the many could do the
greatest evil; for then they would also be able to do the greatest good--
and what a fine thing this would be! But in reality they can do neither;
for they cannot make a man either wise or foolish; and whatever they do is
the result of chance.
CRITO: Well, I will not dispute with you; but please to tell me, Socrates,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Stories From the Old Attic by Robert Harris: man's feet.
"The first horse lived in Arabia, and he was beautiful and
strong. He had never lost a race. And he was shrewd. He would
run just hard enough to pull away from the other horses in the race,
and then he would let up and trot, or even walk, across the finish
line, to the great embarrassment and humiliation of all the
other horses."
"He was clearly a superior animal," the young poet interjected.
"Yes, he was," agreed the man. "Now the other horse lived in
Macedonia, and he, too, was strong and noble. He had, however, lost
one race, the first race of his life; and some say he always
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: aut liberos suos obsides daret. Ob eam rem se ex civitate profugisse et
Romam ad senatum venisse auxilium postulatum, quod solus neque iure
iurando neque obsidibus teneretur. Sed peius victoribus Sequanis quam
Haeduis victis accidisse, propterea quod Ariovistus, rex Germanorum, in
eorum finibus consedisset tertiamque partem agri Sequani, qui esset
optimus totius Galliae, occupavisset et nunc de altera parte tertia
Sequanos decedere iuberet, propterea quod paucis mensibus ante Harudum
milia hominum XXIIII ad eum venissent, quibus locus ac sedes pararentur.
Futurum esse paucis annis uti omnes ex Galliae finibus pellerentur atque
omnes Germani Rhenum transirent; neque enim conferendum esse Gallicum cum
Germanorum agro neque hanc consuetudinem victus cum illa comparandam.
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