“Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.”
Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher
“What the discordant harmony of circumstances would and could effect.”
Book I, epistle xii, line 19
Epistles (c. 20 BC and 14 BC)
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“Every discord is a harmony not understood. Happiness is a disease, and pain, a medicine.”
Swami Narayanananda (1902–1988) Indian guru
The Way to Peace, Power and Long Life (1945), p. 121 (2001 edition)
“Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.”
Heraclitus (-535) pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
As translated by Philip Wheelwright in Heraclitus (1959) https://archive.org/details/heraclitus00whee <br class="br">Disputed
“For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.”
Nam concordia parvae res crescunt, discordia maxumae dilabuntur.
Sallust book Bellum Iugurthinum
X.6
Bellum Iugurthinum
Ernest Flagg (1857–1947) American architect
Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)
“From hence, let fierce contending nations know,
What dire effects from civil discord flow.”
Joseph Addison book Cato
Act V, scene iv.
Cato, A Tragedy (1713)
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
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
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate
The Death of the Duke of Clarence and Avondale