| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: et Helvetiis erat amicus, quod ex ea civitate Orgetorigis filiam in
matrimonium duxerat, et cupiditate regni adductus novis rebus studebat et
quam plurimas civitates suo beneficio habere obstrictas volebat. Itaque
rem suscipit et a Sequanis impetrat ut per fines suos Helvetios ire
patiantur, obsidesque uti inter sese dent perficit: Sequani, ne itinere
Helvetios prohibeant, Helvetii, ut sine maleficio et iniuria transeant.
Caesari renuntiatur Helvetiis esse in animo per agrum Sequanorum et
Haeduorum iter in Santonum fines facere, qui non longe a Tolosatium
finibus absunt, quae civitas est in provincia. Id si fieret, intellegebat
magno cum periculo provinciae futurum ut homines bellicosos, populi Romani
inimicos, locis patentibus maximeque frumentariis finitimos haberet. Ob
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: It best agrees with night: come ciuill night,
Thou sober suted Matron all in blacke,
And learne me how to loose a winning match,
Plaid for a paire of stainlesse Maidenhoods,
Hood my vnman'd blood bayting in my Cheekes,
With thy Blacke mantle, till strange Loue grow bold,
Thinke true Loue acted simple modestie:
Come night, come Romeo, come thou day in night,
For thou wilt lie vpon the wings of night
Whiter then new Snow vpon a Rauens backe:
Come gentle night, come louing blackebrow'd night.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Hero of Our Time by M.Y. Lermontov: and all their relations; the next thing is eating
and drinking of buza, then the dance on horse-
back; and there is always some ragamuffin,
bedaubed with grease, bestriding a wretched,
lame jade, and grimacing, buffooning, and making
the worshipful company laugh. Finally, when
darkness falls, they proceed to hold what we
should call a ball in the guest-chamber. A poor,
old greybeard strums on a three-stringed in-
strument -- I forget what they call it, but
anyhow, it is something in the nature of our
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