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One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done.   Aristotle

Source: ARISTOTLE, The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle, trans. Robert Williams, book 6, chapter 2, p. 154 . Aristotle attributed these words to Agathon, an Athenian tragic poet who lived in the latter half of the fifth century B.C.In his column, Today and Tomorrow, Walter Lippmann attributed the same idea to George Santayana: He might meditate on Santayanas saying that not even God can change the past.New York Herald Tribune, June 11, 1951, p. 17. Unverified. · This quote is about uncategorised · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.


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Aristotle (384 BCE - March 7, 322 BCE) was an ancient Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on diverse subjects, including physics, poetry, biology and zoology, logic, rhetoric, politics and government, and ethics. Along with Socrates and Plato, Aristotle was one of the most influential of ancient Greek philosophers. They transformed Presocratic Greek philosophy into the foundations of Western philosophy as we know it. Some consider Plato and Aristotle to have founded two of the most important schools of Ancient philosophy; others consider Aristotelianism as a development and concretization of Plato's insights.

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