Plato, Alcibiades 2, section 139b

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[139b] a man neither wise nor unwise?

Alcibiades
No, there is not.

Socrates
So he must needs be in one or the other of these two conditions.

Alcibiades
I agree.

Socrates
And you remember that you admitted that madness is the opposite of wisdom?

Alcibiades
I do.

Socrates
And further, that there is no third condition between these, which makes a man neither wise nor unwise?

Alcibiades
Yes, I admitted that.

Socrates
Well now, can there possibly be two opposites of one thing?

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 8 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1955.

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