[O]nce man is declared “the measure of all things,” there is no longer a true, or a good, or a just, but only opinions of equal validity whose clash can be settled only by political or military force; and each force in turn enthrones in its hour of triumph a true, a good, and a just which will endure just as long as itself.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "[O]nce man is declared “the measure of all things,” there is no longer a true, or a good, or a just, but only opinions of equal validity whose clash can be settled only by political or military force; and each force in turn enthrones in its hour of triumph a true, a good, and a just which will endure just as long as itself." in the context of "p. 212
 • He further clarifies in a footnote: 'This aphorism is ascribed to Protagoras. Montaigne, in the Apology for Raimond Sebond, quotes Pliny on it: ‘ As if he could take the measure yf any other thing, who cannot take his own!” Montaigne comments on this: “Truly, Pythagoras stuffed us very nicely when he made man the measure of all things, who never knew even his own.”' (ibid.)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.