| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare: SECOND GENTLEMAN.
Ay, madam, with the swiftest wing of speed.
HELENA.
[Reads.] 'Till I have no wife, I have nothing in France.'
'Tis bitter.
COUNTESS.
Find you that there?
HELENA.
Ay, madam.
SECOND GENTLEMAN.
'Tis but the boldness of his hand haply,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ion by Plato: ION: The physician.
SOCRATES: And speaking generally, in all discussions in which the subject
is the same and many men are speaking, will not he who knows the good know
the bad speaker also? For if he does not know the bad, neither will he
know the good when the same topic is being discussed.
ION: True.
SOCRATES: Is not the same person skilful in both?
ION: Yes.
SOCRATES: And you say that Homer and the other poets, such as Hesiod and
Archilochus, speak of the same things, although not in the same way; but
the one speaks well and the other not so well?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Laches by Plato: some man in the opposing army who is in the opposite circumstances to these
and yet endures and remains at his post, is the braver?
LACHES: I should say that the latter, Socrates, was the braver.
SOCRATES: But, surely, this is a foolish endurance in comparison with the
other?
LACHES: That is true.
SOCRATES: Then you would say that he who in an engagement of cavalry
endures, having the knowledge of horsemanship, is not so courageous as he
who endures, having no such knowledge?
LACHES: So I should say.
SOCRATES: And he who endures, having a knowledge of the use of the sling,
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