Agathon quotes
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“Even God cannot change the past.”
-- AgathonSource : In Aristotle 'Nicomachaean Ethics' bk. 6, sect. 2, 1139b
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“This only is denied even to God: the power to undo the past.”
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“Of this alone, even god is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been.”
-- AgathonSource : "The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle". Book by Aristotle, transl. by R. W. Browne, Book VI, Chapter II, 1850.
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“The improvement of the mind improves the heart and corrects the understanding.”
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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.”
-- AgathonSource : "Dictionary of quotations (classical)". Book by Thomas Benfield Harbottle, p. 515, Stobaeus, Florilegium, XL, VI, 24, 1897.
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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
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Source : "Soon to be a Major Motion Picture". Book by Abbie Hoffman, p. 297, 1980.
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“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.”
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“Even God cannot change the past.”
Source : In Aristotle 'Nicomachaean Ethics' bk. 6, sect. 2, 1139b
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Source : "Sh'ma, Volume 34, Issue 607 - Volume 36, Issue 626". Book edited by J. Jakobovits, 2004.
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Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 14, 1957.
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