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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Protagoras by Plato: There is no other, he said, but that.
Then every opposite has one opposite only and no more?
He assented.
Then now, I said, let us recapitulate our admissions. First of all we
admitted that everything has one opposite and not more than one?
We did so.
And we admitted also that what was done in opposite ways was done by
opposites?
Yes.
And that which was done foolishly, as we further admitted, was done in the
opposite way to that which was done temperately?
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