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Dialogue
1 Intro| everything has but one opposite. Folly, for example, is opposed 2 Intro| is opposed to wisdom; and folly is also opposed to temperance; 3 Prot| away, is the very height of folly, and also greatly increases 4 Prot| you admit the existence of folly?~I do.~And is not wisdom 5 Prot| wisdom the very opposite of folly?~That is true, he said.~ 6 Prot| foolish actions are done by folly, and temperate actions by 7 Prot| which was done foolishly by folly?~He agreed.~And that which 8 Prot| and quite another thing by folly?~Yes.~And in opposite ways?~ 9 Prot| therefore by opposites:—then folly is the opposite of temperance?~ 10 Prot| And do you remember that folly has already been acknowledged 11 Prot| not more than one, and yet folly, which is one, has clearly