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[64d]

Protarchus
Right; for that is most serviceable to us in forming our judgement.

Socrates
And it is quite easy to see the cause which makes any mixture whatsoever either of the highest value or of none at all.

Protarchus
What do you mean?

Socrates
Why, everybody knows that.

Protarchus
Knows what?

Socrates
That any compound, however made, which lacks measure and proportion, must necessarily destroy its components and first of all itself;


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