| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: PREMIER SOLDAT. Herodias a verse e boire au tetrarque.
LE CAPPADOCIEN. C'est la reine Herodias, celle-le qui porte la
mitre noire semee de perles et qui a les cheveux poudrees de bleu?
PREMIER SOLDAT. Oui, c'est Herodias. C'est la femme du tetrarque.
SECOND SOLDAT. Le tetrarque aime beaucoup le vin. Il possede des
vins de trois especes. Un qui vient de l'ile de Samothrace, qui est
pourpre comme le manteau de Cesar.
LE CAPPADOCIEN. Je n'ai jamais vu Cesar.
SECOND SOLDAT. Un autre qui vient de la ville de Chypre, qui est
jaune comme de l'or.
LE CAPPADOCIEN. J'aime beaucoup l'or.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Concerning Christian Liberty by Martin Luther: to increase this faith till it be perfected. For this faith is
his life, justification, and salvation, preserving his person
itself and making it pleasing to God, and bestowing on him all
that Christ has, as I have said above, and as Paul affirms: "The
life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son
of God" (Gal. ii. 20). Though he is thus free from all works, yet
he ought to empty himself of this liberty, take on him the form
of a servant, be made in the likeness of men, be found in fashion
as a man, serve, help, and in every way act towards his neighbour
as he sees that God through Christ has acted and is acting
towards him. All this he should do freely, and with regard to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Golden Sayings of Epictetus by Epictetus: buy and sell. But there are some few who come only to look at the
fair, to inquire how and why it is being held, upon what
authority and with what object. So too, in this great Fair of
life, some, like the cattle, trouble themselves about nothing but
the fodder. Know all of you, who are busied about land, slaves
and public posts, that these are nothing but fodder! Some few
there are attending the Fair, who love to contemplate what the
world is, what He that administers it. Can there be no
Administrator? is it possible, that while neither city nor
household could endure even a moment without one to administer
and see to its welfare, this Fabric, so fair, so vast, should be
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