Dialogue

 1 Intro|     that everything has but one opposite. Folly, for example, is
 2 Intro|  quality may have more than one opposite; or with Plato himself in
 3  Prot|        the Elean sitting in the opposite cloister on a chair of state,
 4  Prot|    therefore I take an entirely opposite course, and acknowledge
 5  Prot| described generally as the very opposite of political virtue. In
 6  Prot|        Cease to wonder, for the opposite would be far more surprising.~
 7  Prot|      And is not wisdom the very opposite of folly?~That is true,
 8  Prot|         to act foolishly is the opposite of acting temperately?~He
 9  Prot|        that which is done in an opposite manner by the opposite?~
10  Prot|       an opposite manner by the opposite?~He agreed.~Once more, I
11  Prot|          Yes.~To which the only opposite is the ugly?~There is no
12  Prot|     There is.~To which the only opposite is the evil?~There is no
13  Prot|         True.~To which the only opposite is the grave?~There is no
14  Prot|      said, but that.~Then every opposite has one opposite only and
15  Prot|     Then every opposite has one opposite only and no more?~He assented.~
16  Prot|         that everything has one opposite and not more than one?~We
17  Prot|      also that what was done in opposite ways was done by opposites?~
18  Prot|       admitted, was done in the opposite way to that which was done
19  Prot|       And that which is done in opposite ways is done by opposites?~
20  Prot|     thing by folly?~Yes.~And in opposite ways?~Certainly.~And therefore
21  Prot|    opposites:—then folly is the opposite of temperance?~Clearly.~
22  Prot|    acknowledged by us to be the opposite of wisdom?~He assented.~
23  Prot|         everything has only one opposite?~Yes.~Then, Protagoras,
24  Prot|     that everything has but one opposite; the other that wisdom is
25  Prot|        assumed to have only one opposite and not more than one, and
26  Prot|      take the question from the opposite point of view, and say: ‘
27  Prot|    which the coward goes is the opposite of that to which the courageous