For as the strings of a lute or bow, so is the harmony of the world alternately tightened and relaxed by vicissitude and change; and in human affairs there is nothing that is unmixed, nothing that is unallied.
Plutarch
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- Of the Tranquillity of the Mind, Morals, sections 14–15; translated by Several Hands; revised by William W. Goodwin (1870), 1911 edition; Exact wording and attribution checked. Philosophical essay on recollection and emotional well-being; historical English translation explicitly identified.
- Of the Tranquillity of the Mind, Morals, sections 14–15; translated by Several Hands; revised by William W. Goodwin (1870), 1911 edition
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