| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: that[27] anything but idleness?
[25] Lit. "per 200 stades."
[26] Or, "wholly to work and wholly to be idle." Reading as Sauppe,
etc., or if with Holden, etc., {to de de kalos kai to kakos
ergazesthai e epimeleisthai}, transl. "between toil and
carefulness well or ill expended there lies all the difference;
the two things are sundered as wide apart as are the poles of work
and play," etc. A. Jacobs' emend. ap. Hartm. "An. Xen." p. 211,
{to de de kakos ergazesthai e kakos epimeleisthai kei to kalos},
seems happy.
[27] Or, "such a hoer aught but an idle loon."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Under the Red Robe by Stanley Weyman: Two or three who stood behind me applauded that, But I turned and
they met my eye; and they were as mum as mice.
'His age is his own concern,' I said grimly. 'He was old enough
a while ago to insult me.'
'And I will prove my words!' the lad cried, exploding at last.
He had spirit enough, and the Marquis had had hard work to
restrain him so long. 'You do me no service, M. de Pombal,' he
continued, pettishly shaking off his friend's hand. 'By your
leave, this gentleman and I will settle this matter.'
'That is better,' I said, nodding drily, while the Marquis stood
aside, frowning and baffled. 'Permit me to lead the way.'
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Reason Discourse by Rene Descartes: believe that, if these were true, they were dependencies on my own nature,
in so far as it possessed a certain perfection, and, if they were false,
that I held them from nothing, that is to say, that they were in me
because of a certain imperfection of my nature. But this could not be the
case with-the idea of a nature more perfect than myself; for to receive it
from nothing was a thing manifestly impossible; and, because it is not
less repugnant that the more perfect should be an effect of, and
dependence on the less perfect, than that something should proceed from
nothing, it was equally impossible that I could hold it from myself:
accordingly, it but remained that it had been placed in me by a nature
which was in reality more perfect than mine, and which even possessed
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