| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Cratylus by Plato: HERMOGENES: I think, Socrates, that you are not improvising now; you must
have heard this from some one else.
SOCRATES: And not the rest?
HERMOGENES: Hardly.
SOCRATES: Well, then, let me go on in the hope of making you believe in
the originality of the rest. What remains after justice? I do not think
that we have as yet discussed courage (andreia),--injustice (adikia), which
is obviously nothing more than a hindrance to the penetrating principle
(diaiontos), need not be considered. Well, then, the name of andreia seems
to imply a battle;--this battle is in the world of existence, and according
to the doctrine of flux is only the counterflux (enantia rhon): if you
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Illustrious Gaudissart by Honore de Balzac: his arm to Madame Vernier, and believed that he made, as they went
along, the conquest of both ladies, for those benefit he sparkled with
wit and humor and undetected puns.
The house of the pretended banker stood at the entrance to the Valley
Coquette. The place, called La Fuye, had nothing remarkable about it.
On the ground floor was a large wainscoted salon, on either side of
which opened the bedroom of the good-man and that of his wife. The
salon was entered from an ante-chamber, which served as the dining-
room and communicated with the kitchen. This lower door, which was
wholly without the external charm usually seen even in the humblest
dwellings in Touraine, was covered by a mansard story, reached by a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: Say, 'The angel of death shall take you away, he who is given charge
of you; then unto your Lord shall ye be returned.'
And couldst thou see when the sinners hang down their heads before
their Lord, 'O Lord! we have seen and we have heard; send us back then
and we will do right. Verily, we are sure!'
Had we pleased we would have given to everything its guidance; but
the sentence was due from me;-I will surely fill hell with the ginns
and with men all together: 'So taste ye, for that ye forgat the
meeting of this day of yours,-verily, we have forgotten you! and taste
ye the torment of eternity for that which ye have done!'
They only believe in our signs who when they are reminded of them
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