| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: domum reverti coeperunt; quos ubi qui proximi Rhenum incolunt perterritos
senserunt, insecuti magnum ex iis numerum occiderunt. Caesar una aestate
duobus maximis bellis confectis maturius paulo quam tempus anni postulabat
in hiberna in Sequanos exercitum deduxit; hibernis Labienum praeposuit;
ipse in citeriorem Galliam ad conventus agendos profectus est.
C. IULI CAESARIS
DE BELLO GALLICO
COMMENTARIUS SECUNDUS
CUM esset Caesar in citeriore Gallia [in hibernis], ita uti supra
demonstravimus, crebri ad eum rumores adferebantur litterisque item
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lily of the Valley by Honore de Balzac: myself the more willingly to be kept under the heel of primogeniture
because I was not my brother's dupe.
I always went alone to the Duchesse de Lenoncourt's, where Henriette's
name was never mentioned; no one, except the good old duke, who was
simplicity itself, ever spoke of her to me; but by the way he welcomed
me I guessed that his daughter had privately commended me to his care.
At the moment when I was beginning to overcome the foolish wonder and
shyness which besets a young man at his first entrance into the great
world, and to realize the pleasures it could give through the
resources it offers to ambition, just, too, as I was beginning to make
use of Henriette's maxims, admiring their wisdom, the events of the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Crowd by Gustave le Bon: secret, but he could not have abstained from compromising himself
by seeing that his family got clear of the city. On the other
hand, I, for fear of letting the truth leak out, would have let
my wife and children stay."
It is necessary to bear in mind the astounding power exerted by
fascination of this order to understand that marvellous return
from the Isle of Elba, that lightning-like conquest of France by
an isolated man confronted by all the organised forces of a great
country that might have been supposed weary of his tyranny. He
had merely to cast a look at the generals sent to lay hands on
him, and who had sworn to accomplish their mission. All of them
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