| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: sibi dederent, responderunt: populi Romani imperium Rhenum finire; si se
invito Germanos in Galliam transire non aequum existimaret, cur sui
quicquam esse imperii aut potestatis trans Rhenum postularet? Ubii autem,
qui uni ex Transrhenanis ad Caesarem legatos miserant, amicitiam fecerant,
obsides dederant, magnopere orabant ut sibi auxilium ferret, quod graviter
ab Suebis premerentur; vel, si id facere occupationibus rei publicae
prohiberetur, exercitum modo Rhenum transportaret: id sibi auxilium
spemque reliqui temporis satis futurum. Tantum esse nomen atque opinionem
eius exercitus Ariovisto pulso et hoc novissimo proelio facto etiam ad
ultimas Germanorum nationes, uti opinione et amicitia populi Romani tuti
esse possint. Navium magnam copiam ad transportandum exercitum
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini: contemptuous and despotic than any royal "You have leave to go.
Madame went out with Aline. Both were quivering with the anger that
prudence had urged them to suppress. They climbed into the coach
again, desiring to be driven home.
Rougane's astonishment turned into dismay when they told him what
had taken place. "Why not try the Hotel de Ville, madame?" he
suggested.
"After that? It would be useless. We must resign ourselves to
remaining in Paris until the barriers are opened again."
"Perhaps it will not matter to us either way by then, madame," said
Aline.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Phaedo by Plato: if not, some other proof of her imperishableness will have to be given.
No other proof is needed, he said; for if the immortal, being eternal, is
liable to perish, then nothing is imperishable.
Yes, replied Socrates, and yet all men will agree that God, and the
essential form of life, and the immortal in general, will never perish.
Yes, all men, he said--that is true; and what is more, gods, if I am not
mistaken, as well as men.
Seeing then that the immortal is indestructible, must not the soul, if she
is immortal, be also imperishable?
Most certainly.
Then when death attacks a man, the mortal portion of him may be supposed to
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