Frases de Agathon

Agatão ou Agaton foi um poeta trágico ateniense.

✵ 448 a.C. – 401 a.C.
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Agathon frases e citações

Agathon: Frases em inglês

“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.”

Stobaeus, Florilegium, XL, VI, 24, as reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of Quotations (1897), p. 515.

“It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.”

Aristotle, Poetics, XXV, quoted by George Eliot in an epigraph to Chapter 41 of Daniel Deronda.

“Even God cannot change the past.”

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book VI, sect. 2, 1139b.
Variant translation: Not even the gods can change the past.

“Art loves chance, and chance loves art.”

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book VI, sec. 4, 1140a.