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Agathon

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Agathon (Greek Ἀγάθων) (c. 448–400 BCE) adalah seorang penyair tragis Athena dan teman Euripides.

  • Art loves chance, and chance loves art.
    • Seni u'mo'otohila poluang, wau poluang mo'otohila seni.
      • Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book VI, sec. 4, 1140a.
  • It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.
    • Utiye bahagiangi londo u'moali mayi lo dadata da'a u'mustahil u'mowali mayi.
      • Aristotle, Poetics, XXV, quoted by George Eliot in an epigraph to Chapter 41 of Daniel Deronda.
  • 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.
    • Nga'amila penguasa harus mo'ela totolu lo akibati. Oyinda liyo, Tiyo hemomarendah manusia; to'oduluwo liyo, tiyo hemomarendah po sesuaiyolo lo hukum, pata'o to'otolu liyo, tiyo botiye ja hemomarendah selama tumu-tumulo.
      • Stobaeus, Florilegium, XL, VI, 24, as reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of Quotations (1897), p. 515.