| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Parmenides by Plato: the same with it?
Let us say so.
Then it is the same with itself and the others, and also other than itself
and the others.
That appears to be the inference.
And it will also be like and unlike itself and the others?
Perhaps.
Since the one was shown to be other than the others, the others will also
be other than the one.
Yes.
And the one is other than the others in the same degree that the others are
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Crito by Plato: CRITO
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Plato
Translated by Benjamin Jowett
PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates, Crito.
SCENE: The Prison of Socrates.
SOCRATES: Why have you come at this hour, Crito? it must be quite early.
CRITO: Yes, certainly.
SOCRATES: What is the exact time?
CRITO: The dawn is breaking.
SOCRATES: I wonder that the keeper of the prison would let you in.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Of The Nature of Things by Lucretius: To nothing be recalled, doubt not my words,
Because our eyes no primal germs perceive;
For mark those bodies which, though known to be
In this our world, are yet invisible:
The winds infuriate lash our face and frame,
Unseen, and swamp huge ships and rend the clouds,
Or, eddying wildly down, bestrew the plains
With mighty trees, or scour the mountain tops
With forest-crackling blasts. Thus on they rave
With uproar shrill and ominous moan. The winds,
'Tis clear, are sightless bodies sweeping through
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