“While from inward health doth flow,
Beloved of all, true bliss which mortals seek.”

Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Eumenides, lines 535–537 (tr. Anna Swanwick)

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Ἐκ δ᾽ ὑγιεί- ας φρενῶν ὁ πάμφιλος καὶ πολύευκτος ὄλβος.

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