Book I, epistle xii, line 19
Epistles (c. 20 BC and 14 BC)
Quid velit et possit rerum concordia discors
“Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.”
“Every discord is a harmony not understood. Happiness is a disease, and pain, a medicine.”
The Way to Peace, Power and Long Life (1945), p. 121 (2001 edition)
“Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.”
As translated by Philip Wheelwright in Heraclitus (1959) https://archive.org/details/heraclitus00whee
Disputed
“For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.”
Nam concordia parvae res crescunt, discordia maxumae dilabuntur.
X.6
Bellum Iugurthinum
Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)
“From hence, let fierce contending nations know,
What dire effects from civil discord flow.”
Act V, scene iv.
Cato, A Tragedy (1713)
Variant: Three Rules of Work:
Out of clutter find simplicity.
From discord find harmony.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Source: The Quotable Einstein
The Death of the Duke of Clarence and Avondale
