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Plutarch

Medicine to produce health must examine disease and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

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Understanding this quote AI Analysis

To understand how to make people healthy, doctors need to study what causes illness. Similarly, to create musical harmony, musicians must first understand what causes unpleasant or conflicting sounds.

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