“Good doth with evil alternate,
And, deeply pondering, we shall learn 'tis this
Diversity that makes the world so fair.”

—  Ubaldo Mari

Alterni i mali
Co' i beni son, e a penetrare il fondo,
Questa diversità fa belle il mondo.
I, 45. Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 247.
La Giasoneide, o sia la Conquista del Vello d'Oro (1780)

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Alterni i mali | co' i beni son, e a penetrare il fondo, | questa diversità fa belle il mondo.

I, 45
La Giasoneide, o sia la Conquista del Vello d'Oro (1780)
Variant: Alterni i mali
Co' i beni son, e a penetrare il fondo,
Questa diversità fa belle il mondo.
Source: Citato in Harbottle, p. 247.

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