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Topic·Yin and yang✕clear

I find that the best goodness I have has some tincture of vice.

Michel de Montaigne

Essays · 1580

★ 5.5

There is a strong shadow where there is much light.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1773

★ 5.5

Behind every beautiful thing, there's been some kind of pain.

Not Dark Yet · 1997

★ 5.5

There's not a string attuned to mirth But has its chord in melancholy.

Ode to Melancholy · 1827

★ 5.3

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Charles Dickens

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby · 1838

★ 3.9

Philosophical literature

Who hath so entire happiness that he is not in some part offended with the condition of his estate?

The Consolation of Philosophy · 524

★ 3.8

Treatise · Philosophical literature

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Ethics · 1677

★ 3.8

Poem · Philosophical literature

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell · 1793

★ 3.8

Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1842

★ 3.8

Essay · Feminist literature

The beauty of the world which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

A Room of One's Own · 1929

★ 3.8

Philosophical literature

The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are borne through strife.

480 BC

★ 3.7

There is a smile of love, And there is a smile of deceit, And there is a smile of smiles In which these two smiles meet.

1805

★ 3.7

Every positive value has its price in negative terms... The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

1964

★ 3.7

Film · Psychological drama (film) · Drama (film) · Psychological drama · Drama

You'll have bad times, but it'll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren't paying attention to.

Good Will Hunting · 1997

★ 3.7

Presocratic fragment · Fragment · Philosophical literature

It is not better for men to get everything they want. Disease makes health pleasant and good, as hunger does being full, and weariness rest.

★ 3.7

Psychological literature

Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

The Psychology of the Unconscious · 1912

★ 3.5

When we love a person, we accept him or her exactly as is: the lovely with the unlovely, the strong along with the fearful, the true mixed in with the facade, and of course, the only way we can do it is by accepting ourselves that way.

2003

★ 3.5

Now no joy but lacks salt That is not dashed with pain And weariness and fault; I crave the stain Of tears, the aftermark Of almost too much love, The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.

1923

★ 3.5

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word "happy" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

The Times of London · 1960

★ 3.5

Psychological literature

The pain of grief is just as much a part of life as the joy of love; it is, perhaps, the price we pay for love, the cost of commitment.

Colin Murray Parkes

1972

★ 3.5

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