| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Hiero by Xenophon: [1] Cf. "Econ." vii. 41.
[2] Or, "tend indisputably to enmity."
[3] Or, "people," "the learner."
What I would say then to the hero-ruler is: Wherever force is needed,
the duty of inflicting chastisement should be assigned to others, but
the distribution of rewards and prizes must be kept in his own
hands.[4]
[4] Cf. "Cyrop." VIII. ii. 27; ib. i. 18; "Hipparch," i. 26.
Common experience attests the excellence of such a system.[5] Thus
when we[6] wish to set on foot a competition between choruses,[7] it
is the function of the archon[8] to offer prizes, whilst to the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde: summer, and the autumn he was very happy, but when the winter came,
and he had no fruit or flowers to bring to the market, he suffered
a good deal from cold and hunger, and often had to go to bed
without any supper but a few dried pears or some hard nuts. In the
winter, also, he was extremely lonely, as the Miller never came to
see him then.
"'There is no good in my going to see little Hans as long as the
snow lasts,' the Miller used to say to his wife, 'for when people
are in trouble they should be left alone, and not be bothered by
visitors. That at least is my idea about friendship, and I am sure
I am right. So I shall wait till the spring comes, and then I
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Essays & Lectures by Oscar Wilde: age seem to us small and insignificant. For, if Lacedaemon was to
become desolate, any antiquarian judging merely from its ruins
would be inclined to regard the tale of the Spartan hegemony as an
idle myth; for the city is a mere collection of villages after the
old fashion of Hellas, and has none of those splendid public
buildings and temples which characterise Athens, and whose remains,
in the case of the latter city, would be so marvellous as to lead
the superficial observer into an exaggerated estimate of the
Athenian power.' Nothing can be more scientific than the
archaeological canons laid down, whose truth is strikingly
illustrated to any one who has compared the waste fields of the
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