| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Oedipus Trilogy by Sophocles: The ills it shrouds or soon will bring to light,
Ills wrought of malice, not unwittingly.
The worst to bear are self-inflicted wounds.
CHORUS
Grievous enough for all our tears and groans
Our past calamities; what canst thou add?
SECOND MESSENGER
My tale is quickly told and quickly heard.
Our sovereign lady queen Jocasta's dead.
CHORUS
Alas, poor queen! how came she by her death?
Oedipus Trilogy |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poems by Oscar Wilde: And caught the torch while yet aflame,
And called upon the holy name
Of Him who now doth hide His face.
ARONA.
Poem: Urbs Sacra Aeterna
Rome! what a scroll of History thine has been;
In the first days thy sword republican
Ruled the whole world for many an age's span:
Then of the peoples wert thou royal Queen,
Till in thy streets the bearded Goth was seen;
And now upon thy walls the breezes fan
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: maximum numerum coemere, sementes quam maximas facere, ut in itinere copia
frumenti suppeteret, cum proximis civitatibus pacem et amicitiam
confirmare. Ad eas res conficiendas biennium sibi satis esse duxerunt; in
tertium annum profectionem lege confirmant. Ad eas res conficiendas
Orgetorix deligitur. Is sibi legationem ad civitates suscipit. In eo
itinere persuadet Castico, Catamantaloedis filio, Sequano, cuius pater
regnum in Sequanis multos annos obtinuerat et a senatu populi Romani
amicus appellatus erat, ut regnum in civitate sua occuparet, quod pater
ante habuerit; itemque Dumnorigi Haeduo, fratri Diviciaci, qui eo tempore
principatum in civitate obtinebat ac maxime plebi acceptus erat, ut idem
conaretur persuadet eique filiam suam in matrimonium dat. Perfacile factu
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