Agathon Quotes

• Even God cannot change the past.

  Agathon

  Change, Time, Memories

  In Aristotle 'Nicomachaean Ethics' bk. 6, sect. 2, 1139b

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• Every ruler must remember three things. Firstly, that he rules man; secondly, that he rules according to law, and thirdly, that he does not rule for ever.

  Agathon

  Hombres, Ley, Doe

  "Dictionary of quotations (classical)". Book by Thomas Benfield Harbottle, p. 515, Stobaeus, Florilegium, XL, VI, 24, 1897.

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• The improvement of the mind improves the heart and corrects the understanding.

  Agathon

  Heart, Understanding, Mind

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• Of this alone, even god is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been.

  Agathon

  Past, Criminal Mind, Has Beens

  "The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle". Book by Aristotle, transl. by R. W. Browne, Book VI, Chapter II, 1850.

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• This only is denied even to God: the power to undo the past.

  Agathon

  Time, Power, Past

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• There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death.

  Agathon

  Men, Despair, Refuge

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• Art is in love with luck, and luck with art.

  Agathon

  Art, Luck, Art Is

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