QUOTATIONS FROM ARISTOTLE-1

1. The things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
2. It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
3. One swallow does not make a spring.
4. Well begun is half done.
5. "Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit."
6. Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach."
7. Man is by nature a political animal.
8. "Now a whole is that which has a beginning, a middle, and an end."
9. "We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions."
10. "To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill."
11. What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing."
12. The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect; it is too exciting.
13. "The greatest thing is style. . . a mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances."
14. "Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all."
15. "The man who gets angry at the right things and with the right people, and in the right way and at the right time and for the right length of time, is commended."
16. The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication; for youth is sweet and they are growing.
17. The law is reason free from passion.
18. The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more . . .
19. "For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions . . ."
20. "Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish."
21. Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once."
22. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
23. "Every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite."
24. Law means good order.
25. "The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness."