Dialogue

 1 Parme|       one has being,~from which opposite consequences are deduced,
 2 Parme|      this: Is there not also an opposite series of consequences which
 3 Parme|     would partake either of one opposite, and this would be a participation
 4 Parme|          But, again, assume the opposite hypothesis, that the one
 5 Parme|    truth seems to be rather the opposite of that which Socrates implies:
 6 Parme|      idea is identical with its opposite, although they may both
 7 Parme|        unlikeness, which is the opposite of likeness, and that in
 8 Parme|      ideas themselves had these opposite qualities; but not if a
 9 Parme|       and to each other, on the opposite hypothesis. Or, again, if
10 Parme|     same with the others is the opposite of being other than the
11 Parme|         unlike by virtue of the opposite affection to that which
12 Parme|    otherwise it will not be the opposite of the other.~True.~Then
13 Parme|        they are always going in opposite directions they become in
14 Parme|         they become in ways the opposite to one another, the younger
15 Parme| unlimited, they are affected in opposite ways.~Yes.~And opposites
16 Parme|        experience every sort of opposite affection, as may be proved
17 Parme|        that the one is, whether opposite of all this is or is not
18 Parme|        have two natures in them opposite to one another.~That is