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it must have been greater and then have become smaller?”“That is true,” said he.“And the weaker is generated from the stronger, and the slower from the quicker?”“Certainly.”“And the worse from the better and the more just from the more unjust?”“Of course.”“Then,” said he, “we have this fact sufficiently established, that all things are generated in this way, opposites from opposites?”“Certainly.”“Now then, is there between all these pairs of opposites what may be called
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 1 translated by Harold North Fowler; Introduction by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1966.
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