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why does a man walk to Megara and not stay at home, when he thinks
he ought to be walking there? Why does he not walk early some
morning into a well or over a precipice, if one happens to be in his
way? Why do we observe him guarding against this, evidently because he
does not think that falling in is alike good and not good?
Evidently, then, he judges one thing to be better and another worse.
And if this is so, he must also judge one thing to be a man and
another to be not-a-man, one thing to be sweet and another to be
not-sweet. For he does not aim at and judge all things alike, when,
thinking it desirable to drink water or to see a man, he proceeds to
aim at these things; yet he ought, if the same thing were alike a
man and not-a-man. But, as was said, there is no one who does not
obviously avoid some things and not others. Therefore, as it seems,
all men make unqualified judgements, if not about all things, still
about what is better and worse. And if this is not knowledge but
opinion, they should be all the more anxious about the truth, as a
sick man should be more anxious about his health than one who is
healthy; for he who has opinions is, in comparison with the man who
knows, not in a healthy state as far as the truth is concerned.
Again, however much all things may be 'so and not so', still there
is a more and a less in the nature of things; for we should not say
that two and three are equally even, nor is he who thinks four
things are five equally wrong with him who thinks they are a thousand
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