
“Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.”
Nicom.Arith.2:509
The Life of Pythagoras (1919)
“Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.”
Source: 1910s, Ads and Sales (1911), p. 8
“What the discordant harmony of circumstances would and could effect.”
Quid velit et possit rerum concordia discors
Book I, epistle xii, line 19
Epistles (c. 20 BC and 14 BC)
Opening address to the National Day of Prayer in Suva, 15 May 2005 (excerpts) http://www.fiji.gov.fj/publish/page_4607.shtml
“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
Source: A Thousand-Mile Walk To the Gulf, 1916, chapter 7: A Sojourn in Cubapage 168, omits the "all". This is a typo: see 1916 edition page 164
Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir
Source: The Limits of State Action (1792), Ch. 8
“Harmony is pure love, for love is complete agreement.”
Armonía es puro amor, porque el amor es concierto.
Fuenteovejuna (1613), Barrildo, Act I.
“For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.”
Nam concordia parvae res crescunt, discordia maxumae dilabuntur.
X.6
Bellum Iugurthinum