| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Protagoras by Plato: pains. No one would instruct, no one would rebuke, or be angry with those
whose calamities they suppose to be due to nature or chance; they do not
try to punish or to prevent them from being what they are; they do but pity
them. Who is so foolish as to chastise or instruct the ugly, or the
diminutive, or the feeble? And for this reason. Because he knows that
good and evil of this kind is the work of nature and of chance; whereas if
a man is wanting in those good qualities which are attained by study and
exercise and teaching, and has only the contrary evil qualities, other men
are angry with him, and punish and reprove him--of these evil qualities one
is impiety, another injustice, and they may be described generally as the
very opposite of political virtue. In such cases any man will be angry
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An Historical Mystery by Honore de Balzac: no longer watched, looked at Michu with a grin, and Michu signified
his approval by a glance. Lechesneau left the justice of peace and
returned to the stables.
"Monsieur," said Madame d'Hauteserre, at last, addressing Pigoult;
"can you explain these arrests?"
"The gentlemen are accused of abducting the senator by armed force and
keeping him a prisoner; for we do not think they have murdered him--in
spite of appearances," replied Pigoult.
"What penalties are attached to the crime?" asked Monsieur
d'Hauteserre.
"Well, as the old law continues in force, and they are not amenable
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: despair not of God's comfort; for, verily, none need despair of
God's comfort save a misbelieving people!'
And when they entered in unto him they said, 'O prince! distress has
touched both us and our families, and we have brought trifling
chattels. So give us full measure and bestow upon us in charity;
verily, God rewards the charitable.'
He said, 'Do ye know what ye did with Joseph and his brother,
while ye were ignorant?'
They said, 'Art thou then indeed Joseph?' He said, 'I am Joseph, and
this is my brother; God has been gracious towards us. Verily, whoso
fears God and is patient,- verily, God wastes not the hire of those
The Koran |
