Agathon Quotes

Agathon was an Athenian tragic poet whose works have been lost. He is best known for his appearance in Plato's Symposium, which describes the banquet given to celebrate his obtaining a prize for his first tragedy at the Lenaia in 416. He is also a prominent character in Aristophanes' comedy the Thesmophoriazusae. Wikipedia  

✵ 448 BC – 401 BC
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Famous Agathon Quotes

“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.

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