Plato, Philebus, section 24b

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[24b] preclude the possibility of any end; for if there were any end of them, the more and less would themselves be ended.

Protarchus
Very true.

Socrates
But always, we affirm, in the hotter and colder there is the more and less.

Protarchus
Certainly.

Socrates
Always, then, the argument shows that these two have no end; and being endless, they are of course infinite.

Protarchus
Most emphatically, Socrates.

Socrates
I am glad you responded, my dear Protarchus,

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.

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