| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sophist by Plato: STRANGER: And is therefore not the same.
THEAETETUS: It is not.
STRANGER: Yet, surely, motion is the same, because all things partake of
the same.
THEAETETUS: Very true.
STRANGER: Then we must admit, and not object to say, that motion is the
same and is not the same, for we do not apply the terms 'same' and 'not the
same,' in the same sense; but we call it the 'same,' in relation to itself,
because partaking of the same; and not the same, because having communion
with the other, it is thereby severed from the same, and has become not
that but other, and is therefore rightly spoken of as 'not the same.'
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Agesilaus by Xenophon: under his power by the subtler force of human kindness.
[10] See Grote, vol. ix. p. 365 foll.
But when, in Phrygia even, the freedom of his march along the flats
was hampered by the cavalry of Pharnabazus, he saw that if he wished
to avoid a skulking warfare under cover, a force of cavalry was
indispensable. Accordingly he enlisted the wealthiest members of every
city in those parts to breed and furnish horses; with this saving
clause, however: that the individual who furnished a horse and arms
with a good rider should be exempt from service himself. By this means
he engendered an eagerness to discharge the obligation, not unlike
that of the condemned man, casting about to discover some one to die
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: toward my palace upon the outskirts. Here my old slaves fell
upon their knees and kissed my hands as I greeted them.
They cared not where I had been. It was enough that I
had returned to them.
"Ah, master," cried one, "if our divine Princess were but
here this would be a day indeed."
Tears came to my eyes, so that I was forced to turn
away that I might hide my emotions. Carthoris wept openly
as the slaves pressed about him with expressions of affection,
and words of sorrow for our common loss. It was now that
Tars Tarkas for the first time learned that his daughter, Sola,
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