Dialogue

 1 Parme|      part of the dialogue we may certainly apply the words in which
 2 Parme|  divisible and yet remain one?’ ‘Certainly not.’ ‘Would you venture
 3 Parme|     philosophy is at an end.’ ‘I certainly do not see my way.’ ‘I think,’
 4 Parme|       come into contact, or not?~Certainly not, said Socrates; visible
 5 Parme|         justice and beauty?~Yes, certainly, said Socrates that is my
 6 Parme|   divisible and yet remains one?~Certainly not, he said.~Suppose that
 7 Parme|       alike, be the idea itself?~Certainly.~Then the idea cannot be
 8 Parme|        answer to absolute truth?~Certainly.~And each kind of absolute
 9 Parme|          of being which we have?~Certainly.~But the ideas themselves,
10 Parme|       this most exact knowledge?~Certainly.~But then, will God, having
11 Parme|         the ideas are unknown?~I certainly do not see my way at present.~
12 Parme|      part is wanting be a whole?~Certainly.~Then, in either case, the
13 Parme|        the limits of everything?~Certainly.~Then the one, having neither
14 Parme|        all round in many places.~Certainly not.~But if, on the other
15 Parme|         coming into being in it.~Certainly not.~And therefore whatever
16 Parme|        it would be in something.~Certainly.~And we said that it could
17 Parme|        at rest nor in motion?~It certainly appears so.~Neither will
18 Parme|      being one will it be other?~Certainly not.~But if not by virtue
19 Parme|         it became one, the same?~Certainly.~And, therefore, if one
20 Parme|      than that which is greater.~Certainly.~But how can that which
21 Parme|      less than itself, or other?~Certainly.~Well, and do we suppose
22 Parme|       growing older than itself?~Certainly.~And that which is older,
23 Parme|      participation of past time?~Certainly.~And do not ‘will be,’ ‘
24 Parme|   participation of present time?~Certainly.~And if the one is absolutely
25 Parme|        its parts, one and being?~Certainly.~And is each of these parts—
26 Parme|          a whole and has a part?~Certainly.~Again, of the parts of
27 Parme|  disappearing, and becoming two.~Certainly.~And so the one, if it is,
28 Parme|           only partook of being?~Certainly.~If being and the one be
29 Parme|        otherness and difference.~Certainly.~So that the other is not
30 Parme|      with the one or with being?~Certainly not.~And therefore whether
31 Parme|       one, I speak of them both?~Certainly.~And if I speak of being
32 Parme|       two, and thrice one three?~Certainly.~There are two, and twice,
33 Parme|        of being: am I not right?~Certainly.~And if all number participates
34 Parme|         one, and cannot be none?~Certainly.~Then the one attaches to
35 Parme|        as many as the parts are?~Certainly.~Then we were wrong in saying
36 Parme|       co-equal and co-extensive.~Certainly that is true.~The one itself,
37 Parme|        being, must also be many?~Certainly.~Further, inasmuch as the
38 Parme|          contained by the whole?~Certainly.~And that which contains,
39 Parme|    limits, also having extremes?~Certainly.~And if a whole, having
40 Parme|     cease to be anywhere at all?~Certainly.~If it were nowhere, it
41 Parme|      itself and also in another.~Certainly.~The one then, being of
42 Parme|      same, must be ever at rest?~Certainly.~Well, and must not that,
43 Parme|        the one a part of itself?~Certainly not.~Since it is not a part
44 Parme| therefore not other than itself?~Certainly not.~If then it be neither
45 Parme|         be the same with itself?~Certainly.~But then, again, a thing
46 Parme|        than that which is other?~Certainly.~And will not all things
47 Parme|          not-one, or in the one?~Certainly not.~Then not by reason
48 Parme|         a name given to a thing?~Certainly.~Whenever, then, you use
49 Parme|     being other than the others?~Certainly.~And in that it was other
50 Parme|      like and unlike the others?~Certainly.~And in the same way as
51 Parme|          if there is no contact?~Certainly not.~For all which reasons
52 Parme|      smallness would be smaller?~Certainly.~Then there are two such
53 Parme|          in a part of the whole?~Certainly.~Suppose the first; it will
54 Parme|         any part in which it is.~Certainly.~Then smallness will not
55 Parme|          or be exceeded by them?~Certainly not.~And that which neither
56 Parme|        with and equal to itself.~Certainly.~Then the one will be equal
57 Parme|          less, less than itself?~Certainly.~And the same will hold
58 Parme|         equal to them in number.~Certainly.~Once more, then, as would
59 Parme|         being, partakes of time?~Certainly.~And is not time always
60 Parme|        it moves forward in time?~Certainly.~And do you remember that
61 Parme|        younger at the same time?~Certainly.~Thus, then, the one becomes
62 Parme|       become, and is then older.~Certainly.~And it is older than that
63 Parme|          it reaches the present?~Certainly.~But the present is always
64 Parme|          it is it is always now.~Certainly.~Then the one always both
65 Parme|         until you reach the end?~Certainly.~And all these others we
66 Parme|        be also of necessity one?~Certainly.~And will not the one come
67 Parme|         the others than the one.~Certainly.~After this manner then
68 Parme|          in relation to the one.~Certainly.~Then that which had become
69 Parme|         the one than the others.~Certainly.~For all these reasons,
70 Parme|       than itself or the others.~Certainly.~But since the one partakes
71 Parme|        becoming and will become?~Certainly.~And there is and was and
72 Parme|    things appertains to the one.~Certainly, that is true.~Yet once
73 Parme|      times not partake of being?~Certainly.~But can it partake of being
74 Parme|      taking and giving up being.~Certainly.~And being one and many
75 Parme|       many, it ceases to be one?~Certainly.~And as it becomes one and
76 Parme|         the part will be a part.~Certainly.~If, then, the others have
77 Parme|     perfect whole, having parts.~Certainly.~And the same argument holds
78 Parme|          be unlimited in number?~Certainly.~And yet, when each several
79 Parme|       and also partake of limit.~Certainly.~Then they are both like
80 Parme|       the most unlike of things.~Certainly.~Considered, then, in regard
81 Parme|      itself and to other things.~Certainly.~2.a. Well, and ought we
82 Parme|           There is a difference, certainly.~Is there a difference only,
83 Parme| distinguished from other things.~Certainly.~Then I will begin again,
84 Parme|       different from the others?~Certainly.~Difference, then, belongs
85 Parme|       that,’ and in many others.~Certainly.~And it will have unlikeness
86 Parme|          be of a different kind.~Certainly.~And are not things of a
87 Parme|       the others be equal to it?~Certainly not.~And things that are
88 Parme|      affirm that we say what is?~Certainly.~Then, as would appear,
89 Parme|        being in order not to be?~Certainly.~Then the one, if it is
90 Parme|   certain state, implies change?~Certainly.~And change is motion—we
91 Parme|        at rest must stand still?~Certainly.~Then the one that is not,
92 Parme|      altered it cannot be moved?~Certainly not.~Nor can we say that
93 Parme|      things be attributed to it?~Certainly not.~And therefore other
94 Parme|        which they will be other?~Certainly.~And what can that be?—for
95 Parme|       which are contained in it?~Certainly.~And each particle will
96 Parme|      conceived of without unity?~Certainly.~And such being when seen
97 Parme|       themselves and each other.~Certainly.~And must they not be the
98 Parme|         is not, then nothing is?~Certainly.~Let thus much be said;