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An Argument (n.) that answers 'neither and both' has sat down on both sides of the fence and is ruined.
Contradiction (n.) is not abuse; abuse is something quite different.
Gentleman (n.) speaks of things as they are — and so, says Ctesippus, he speaks ill of bad men.
Gold (n.) is best kept in one's own skull, the Scythians say: their happiest men drink from their gilded skulls and gaze into them, holding their own heads in their hands.
Good (n.) has a measure: medicine is good when needed, but no one is helped by a wagonload of hellebore unless he is as big as the statue at Delphi.
A Lover (n.) fixated on his beloved can find nothing more original to say than any child could.
Nonsense (n.) is no concern of the eristics, says Ctesippus: it matters nothing to them if what they say is complete nonsense.
Sophist (n.) falls asleep with his eyes open, and has found the way to speak and say nothing.
Virtue (n.) is worth being flayed for: Ctesippus would let the sophists skin him, so long as his hide became not a wineskin, like Marsyas's, but a piece of virtue.