“Even God cannot change the past.”
Agathon (-448–-401 BC) Athenian tragic poet
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book VI, sect. 2, 1139b.
Variant translation: Not even the gods can change the past.
“Even the gods cannot change destiny.”
Source: Norse Mythology (2017), Chapter 14, “The Death of Balder” (p. 234)
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Marcus Annaeus Lucanus book Pharsalia
Book II, line 287 (tr. J. D. Duff).
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“Even the Gods cannot strive against necessity.”
Pittacus of Mytilene Greek sage
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Malcolm Lowry book Under the Volcano
Source: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. III (*p. 97)
