| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gorgias by Plato: evils.
POLUS: Clearly.
SOCRATES: And he has the second place, who is delivered from vice?
POLUS: True.
SOCRATES: That is to say, he who receives admonition and rebuke and
punishment?
POLUS: Yes.
SOCRATES: Then he lives worst, who, having been unjust, has no deliverance
from injustice?
POLUS: Certainly.
SOCRATES: That is, he lives worst who commits the greatest crimes, and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Theaetetus by Plato: two, three, four, five, six; or when we say twice three, or three times
two, or four and two, or three and two and one, are we speaking of the same
or of different numbers?
THEAETETUS: Of the same.
SOCRATES: That is of six?
THEAETETUS: Yes.
SOCRATES: And in each form of expression we spoke of all the six?
THEAETETUS: True.
SOCRATES: Again, in speaking of all (in the plural) is there not one thing
which we express?
THEAETETUS: Of course there is.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Hamlet by William Shakespeare: and indeed, it goes so heauenly with my disposition;
that this goodly frame the Earth, seemes to me a sterrill
Promontory; this most excellent Canopy the Ayre,
look you, this braue ore-hanging, this Maiesticall Roofe,
fretted with golden fire: why, it appeares no other thing
to mee, then a foule and pestilent congregation of vapours.
What a piece of worke is a man! how Noble in
Reason? how infinite in faculty? in forme and mouing
how expresse and admirable? in Action, how like an Angel?
in apprehension, how like a God? the beauty of the
world, the Parragon of Animals; and yet to me, what is
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