Plutarch shows the path of life with its good and bad aspects, examines the desire for power, the love for politics, adultery, death, prostitution, the need for divine essence, war, inertia, and malice. He concludes that the tranquility of the soul is a matter of perspective and is achieved when you place the good above the bad, the pleasant above the unpleasant, the beautiful above the ugly, since you can never avoid the dark side of life.