| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: Sibi omnes fere finitimos esse inimicos ac suae virtuti invidere; a
quibus se defelldere traditis armis non possent. Sibi praestare, si in
eum casum deducerentur, quamvis fortunam a populo Romano pati quam ab his
per cruciatum interfici inter quos dominari consuessent.
Ad haec Caesar respondit: se magis consuetudine sua quam merito eorum
civitatem conservaturum, si prius quam murum aries attigisset se
dedidissent; sed deditionis nullam esse condicionem nisi armis traditis.
Se id quod in Nerviis fecisset facturum finitimisque imperaturum ne quam
dediticiis populi Romani iniuriam inferrent. Re renuntiata ad suos illi
se quae imperarentur facere dixerunt. Armorum magna multitudine de muro
in fossam, quae erat ante oppidum, iacta, sic ut prope summam muri
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Village Rector by Honore de Balzac: and august, such as we sometimes meet with in country regions among
very young girls,--a sort of flower of beauty, which field labors, the
constant cares of the household, the burning of the sun, and want of
personal care, remove with terrible rapidity. Her movements had that
ease of motion characteristic of country girls, to which certain
habits unconsciously contracted in Paris gave additional grace. If
Catherine had remained in the Correze she would by this time have
looked like an old woman, wrinkled and withered; her complexion, once
rosy, would have coarsened; but Paris, though it paled her, had
preserved her beauty. Illness, toil, and grief had endowed her with
the mysterious gifts of melancholy, the inward vitalizing thought,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Nana, Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille by Emile Zola: sounded through the house with shivering rapidity. It was a regular
peal, as Zoe said, a peal loud enough to upset the neighborhood,
seeing that a whole mob of men were jabbing at the ivory button, one
after the other. That old joker Bordenave had really been far too
lavish with her address. Why, the whole of yesterday's house was
coming!
"By the by, Francis, have you five louis?" said Nana.
He drew back, looked carefully at her headdress and then quietly
remarked:
"Five louis, that's according!"
"Ah, you know if you want securities. . ." she continued.
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